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Beyond the popular culture notoriety, Playboy published some of the greatest long-form journalism and fiction of the 20th century (interviews with MLK Jr., stories by Margaret Atwood). The PDF archives are widely available and highly sought after for the writing, not just the photos.
For long-term archiving, convert regular PDFs to PDF/A-1b or PDF/A-3. This:
A scanned magazine is just a picture of text. To make it searchable, you need OCR. Use Adobe Acrobat Pro or the open-source tool Ocropy to add a hidden text layer to your PDFs. This allows you to press Ctrl+F and find any word in a 1964 magazine.
A hard drive fails. A SSD fails. Your archive must exist in three places:
Beyond the popular culture notoriety, Playboy published some of the greatest long-form journalism and fiction of the 20th century (interviews with MLK Jr., stories by Margaret Atwood). The PDF archives are widely available and highly sought after for the writing, not just the photos.
For long-term archiving, convert regular PDFs to PDF/A-1b or PDF/A-3. This:
A scanned magazine is just a picture of text. To make it searchable, you need OCR. Use Adobe Acrobat Pro or the open-source tool Ocropy to add a hidden text layer to your PDFs. This allows you to press Ctrl+F and find any word in a 1964 magazine.
A hard drive fails. A SSD fails. Your archive must exist in three places: