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If you have Adobe Acrobat Pro, you can
1) Open the pdf;
2) Click on the Scan & OCR tool;
3) Click on Recognize Text;
4) Choose “Hebrew”
5) And then click on the Recognize Text button.Adobe Acrobat Pro will convert the words to digital format. If it’s a scan from a book, you will probably have to go through it and do a lot of corrections.
This may not be the best option, but it works to some degree.In answer to the first post’s question:
Where can I research **current** demographics information on Orthodox Judaism?
One of the best informed researchers on this topic is Dr. Ira M. Sheskin:
Dr. Ira M. Sheskin is the Director of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami.
Then Marvin Schick of Avi Chai published (in 2009) a census of Jewish Day Schools in North America.
Someone else had the idea of counting the number of chassidim in the US by looking at US Census numbers for families whose primary language is Yiddish and who have small kids.
There is also the North American Jewish Data Bank.
For the person who started this thread, who wanted to defend his wearing of techeiles, this article by R’ Chaim Twerski is a good place to start:
http://www.tekhelet.com/pdf/tw01.pdf
There is also a great sefer from R’ Shlomo Yaakov Teitelbaum called “Lulaos Techeiles” but you have to buy it. Zundel Berman has it for $14 here:
The Will by Chaim Greenbaum is a couple cuts above your standard frum fare. It’s also 704 pages.