Originally Posted by
BigGreenGilbert
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My own (cynical) view is that the MoD deliberately does it this way to make it difficult to search and copy and paste from such documents.
OCR would turn the scan into text fairly easily... Those of us with Windows 7 can also use the Snipping Tool to do the same with small image files (I have no idea if it's in Vista), and there are 3rd party bits of software that will do the same for earlier versions of Windows.