The 'VIRUS RODEO.pdf' file (Size on disk: 16,715,776 bytes) produced by professional scanning of Fred Chase's hardcopy WILL support searches as follows.
E.g., if you open the still-free Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and do CTL-f Mercedes
You'll be told that there are 350 instances of that word in
the Manuscript,
and it will locate them one by one. Or if you click the little gear wheel to
'Open Full Reader Search'
it will show you a list of all 350 instances, each within a line of context.
Also, you and others can make a copy of VIRUS RODEO.pdf and each use the Comment feature.
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The obvious way to get an unencumbered stream-of-text 'machine-readable' version from Vince's hardcopy would have been to do
1. Adobe Reader DC | More Tools | Export PDF | Rich Text Format (*.rtf) | Export to RTF | $$$$$
But this entangles one in giving Adobe one's credit card, which so far I've managed to avoid!
This machine-readable version of Virus Rodeo was produced on Windows 10 as follows:
1. Adobe Reader DC | More Tools | COMMENT | select a word of text | CTL-a | Ctl-c
2. Word | New | Blank Document | View | Web Layout | Ctl-v | Ctl | Keep Text Only
3.
From this text stream, a lengthy editing
job was completed to extract a good and fully usable replica of the text Vince
left us – named VIRUS RODEO.pdf,_restored.doc.
The replica has hundreds (thousands?) of corrections, but only those which are
entirely uncontroversial.
Any corrections that that might elicit discussion are colored.
4. Further, the most recent RODEO.pdf,_restored.doc is also saved as VIRUS RODEO.pdf.README.htm for quick access by a web browser.
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Depending on your version of Word, you will be able to open the VIRUS RODEO.pdf,_restored.doc file and do the following.