I have two trucks, a D1 and a RRC. I downloaded RAVE for both as PDFs. Given the size of these documents I rely heavily on the search function to find the information I need. This works fine for my copy of RAVE for the D1, but not at all for the copy for the RRC. I use a Mac so I'm viewing them in Preview. Both have search fields, command+F activates the function, but the difference is the search turns up zero results for my RRC version and hits them all in the D1 version. Any idea why this is and how to fix it? Otherwise it's going to be lots of scrolling. The table of contents in the RRC version doesn't get too specific.
RAVE searchability
- Thread starter Tugela
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Probably because one was scanned in as an image and the other was printed to a PDF file, so it has text and images.
One approach for the advanced user would be to convert the PDF to TIFFs and run them through tesseract and have tesseract output back into searchable PDF.
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/README.md
I am not an advanced user, however Rover ownership has led me to learn a great many things. This may soon be another. Thanks for the suggestion.
I'd hate to know how much space all those pages would take up as TIFFs.
Might be worth doing, though, because the RAVE manual sucks.
Cheers,
Kennith
I use Macs and never bothered with the RAVE format (seemed like a nightmare). I just harvested the PDF's and every one has been searchable. I keep WSM on my phone for whatever LR I could be driving.
EDIT: just checked the ones on my phone, the Series WSM and Parts catalogs are not searchable, but the 86-93 RRC Parts, 89-93 RRC WSM, 95RRC and all D1 pdf's are searchable.
EDIT: just checked the ones on my phone, the Series WSM and Parts catalogs are not searchable, but the 86-93 RRC Parts, 89-93 RRC WSM, 95RRC and all D1 pdf's are searchable.