http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-docs-ocr.html

But that assumes you have images, which you may not.

Otherwise, I’d probably see if there’s a way I could sneak LexisNexis access for a day (perhaps through a local library or a university-employed friend), search for the text of the key articles, and copy and paste them as described above.

I don’t think there’s any doubt text would be better than PDFs/images of stories — more searchable, less likely to be awkwardly sized for the browser, more printable, etc. Of course, that’s assuming you’re a writer and not a photographer, designer, etc.

Fortunately, I was wearing a pantsuit with a total of four deep pockets.

I went into the paper’s library, put the entirety of my clip file in those pockets, and walked out.

Within an hour, they were stopping folks from doing what I had done. No doubt those clips were thrown away long ago…and I still have fun from time to time looking at those yellowed things of mine.