[time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

Mike Monett xde-l2g3 at myamail.com
Wed Jul 1 20:05:07 UTC 2009


  > Hi, I  don't think its a version problem. When you  have  the patent
  > displayed (View  original document tab) you only see one  page  at a
  > time. see

  >
http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20040226&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=US&NR=2004036036A1&KC=A1

  > (one of mine ;-)

  > There is  a bar above the view window with a "save  full document"
  > option. If  you click on this it will ask you to decode  a captcha
  > before downloading the PDF.

  > Regards,
  > Robert Akinson

  Thanks, I see what you mean now. I didn't notice that link the first
  time. It works great!

  That is an interesting patent application. It was in 2004 - I wonder
  why it hasn't issued yet.

  Looks like google patents is back online. I must have caught them as
  they were  switching  over  to captchas. The  site  looks  and works
  different now,  and   they   require   decoding  the  captcha before
  downloading. I  guess  that's OK, since it still  is  the  best site
  online for US patents.

  But it  means  I can no longer link to the pdf file  and  convert it
  directly to DjVu. This OCR's the file and makes  it text-searchable.
  The size drops considerably, and the DjVu reader is much faster than
  any pdf  reader  I've used. It is often worth the  effort  for large
  pdf's or ones you need to study a great deal.

  Now I have to download the file from google, then upload it to DjVu.
  This takes time, but the conversion takes much longer, so I guess it
  doesn't matter.

  If you'd like to try DjVu, you can start here:

  http://any2djvu.djvuzone.org/ulinit.php?submit.x=81&submit.y=30

  If you don't have a viewer, you can get a free viewer at

  http://windjview.sourceforge.net/

  Thanks,

  Mike



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