Thanks, Daron. We don't actually run OCR over the cover page PDF. We just save it in Word as an Adobe PDF, then append to the existing document, which is already in PDF format.

We also sometimes create cover sheets via a batch process using MS Word; again, just saving in default Adobe PDF format.

Bern

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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Cover pages and Google

Perhaps it depends on how you are generating PDFs.  If it is straight acrobat, then it should be as easy as making a PDF of all but the cover, running OCR, then adding the cover in as another page.  As long as you do not generate OCR again, the added pages should stay image only.  I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure that's possible.

If it is a question specific to your repository architecture then it might be harder.




On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, Dan Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Could you provide some examples of the resources that you're excluding
> and searches that return those results (maybe with screen shots in
> case Google serves up different results to different users)? I'm
> having a bit of trouble understanding your problem description.
>
> I'll admit that my schema.org hammer is itchy, but I don't want to
> jump to conclusions as the problem might not even be a construction
> issue, let alone a nail :) On 24 Nov 2014 22:57, "Bernadette Houghton"
> < [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > We've discovered that cover pages we add to items in our research
> > repository have the unwelcome side effect of causing Google to
> > display
> the
> > cover page citation in search results, rather than the intro or preface.
> > The problem doesn't occur in Google Scholar, just the main Google
> > search engine.
> >
> > One way to avoid this problem is to have the cover page formatted as
> > an image PDF rather than a text-readable PDF. Can anyone recommend a
> software
> > that will convert a text-readable PDF to an image PDF??
> >
> > TIA
> >
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