On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote:

One FILE per PAGE? Wow, that seems kinda silly...

Acrobat Pro is one of your friends -- I've been downloading Sanborn
maps and combining related pages into single files.

[searchable,]

UNLESS -- the PDF files are not searchable.

Acrobat Pro is one of your friends It can do an OCR scan on
an image and extract the text, and it can recognize fonts, to the
extent that those fonts are available on your system.

Acrobat Pro is a component of Adobe Design Suite, several versions of
which are available at deep discounts to students; this is an excuse
to do what I did when I retired -- take classes at a local community
college (at least in the US).
--
Nolan Hinshaw, native Californian since 1944
"Every freight train has at least one NP box car"
the Brock Corollary to the GN hypothesis