Comment by thomassmith65
3 days ago
It's not my site but I'm the one who posted it here. The nice thing about a scan (if it's good quality) for an old article like this is it viscerally provides some context (eg: the era and type of publication). The scan quality here is abysmal, and for that I do apologize.
as someone blind, there is one more reason to consider image based pdf-s undesirable. OCR works okayish most of the time, but it tends to suck when it does not and if the layout of the scanned page is complex, the output often breaks down. Not to mention that the friction of converting it is a disincentive to bother.