 IBM Softcopy Reader A part of the BookManager family of products, the IBM Softcopy Reader is a Java-based online documentation reader and organizer made up of two programs, the Book Reader and the Shelf Organizer. It is shipped free of charge on the IBM Collection Kits, and can be freely downloaded from this site. If you are familiar with the original IBM Library Reader (ILR) tool from BookManager, the Softcopy Reader was introduced in 2000 to replace the ILR. Either of the tools can be used to read BookManager Books, but the older ILR is no longer supported, and may be used only on an "as is" basis. We now recommend the newer Softcopy Reader tool. Book Reader Book Reader allows you to open softcopy books created with one of the IBM BookManager Build programs. You can: - View and navigate through the softcopy books online
- Do searches within the book
- Create notes
- Copy text
- Print text selections, a section, or the entire book
Shelf Organizer Shelf Organizer allows you to specify the location (paths) of all of the documents, shelves and shelf indexes you want to use. You can specify the paths of these objects on: - Internal hard drives (C:, D:, E; etc.)
- CD-ROM drives on your workstation or on a network
- External hard drives on a network
- Other storage devices that can be attached to your system
With the Shelf Organizer, you can manage your softcopy libraries in the following ways: - Specify the location (paths) of all the documents, shelves and shelf indexes located on your workstation, on a network, or an external storage device
- Organize your shelves by name, date, or description
- Organize your documents by name, date, description, or document number
- Create your own shelves
- List and view shelves
- Delete shelves
- Import BookManager Books or Adobe PDFs into a shelf
- Move BookManager Books or Adobe PDFs between shelves
- Search shelves or selected documents on a shelf (starting with Softcopy Reader V3.6, Shelf Organizer supports Quick Searching indexed extended shelves of PDFs, and the Windows version interracts with V1.3 (or higher) of the IBM Advanced Linguistic Search Plug-in for Adobe to automatically apply the search criteria to any PDFs selected from the hitlist, displaying a ranked list of topic hits and highlighted results within that PDF, for any topics selected from the topic hitlist)
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