My computer room is beginning to look abandoned. What to do with hundreds of empty file folders, and several empty bookshelves?

I haven’t decided yet. That is what happens when you have scanned in 31 thousand pages of documents and books.

And yesterday, while going through cabinets in the garage, I discovered another 27 books I would like to scan.

Scanning books and papers in the PDF format with my new one-page-per-second scanner, the documents can easily be searched.

However, when I wish to search Wikipedia articles on the Coats of Arms of selected countries, for example, I do not have to use my scanner.

Instead, I can copy and paste the articles into a Word document.

Then I can save that entire document as a PDF file. True, both Word documents and PDF documents can be searched.

Up until now, though, I didn’t know how to modify and annotate my PDF documents.

On the image of my Qatar PDF on the right, you can see where I have experimented by adding shapes, text, a line, an arrow, highlighting, underlining, magnification, an added note, and a speech bubble.

I always have been able to modify my Word documents.

Now it is nice to know that I will be able to modify my PDF documents, and have fun doing it.

So many ways to have fun with documents. I am just cracking the surface.

My great-grandchildren likely will see the day that objects can be stored, searched and modified electronically. Then, if desired, they can be restored to any prescribed dimensions. Hey, people could print out miniature 3D Qatari swords.

Mr. Ebsen may be contacted at robertebsen51@gmail.com