I have done a good thing

Today I learned how to do some real power-lifting with Adobe Acrobat, and I feel great about it.

I used the 'text recognition' feature to convert over 800 Tiff images into word-searchable PDF files; in batches of 100. Then I used the 'combine' feature to consolidated those into one document.

The images were from Charles Decker's 30 years-worth of Afton Historical Minutes that I scanned from newspaper clippings some years ago. This weekend, at his 90th birthday celebration, one of his colleagues was wishing those digital images were searchable. And now they are.

I have posted the searchable document at the Internet Archive where it now resides with earlier efforts to 'tag' individual articles.

As much as anything I have contributed through my duties and opportunities as a librarian, this confluence of community, technology, and resource development stands pretty high on my list.

Happy Birthday, Charles.