Southern guy probably was eating a Vidalia onion. The soil is low in sulfur, I believe, and has a more neutral acidity, so the onion is pretty uniquely sweet. I heard one older southerner call them dirt apples.
Okay hear me out... physically print the documents then, using a high resolution scanner, make a digital copy and finally use a raster to vector convertor.
I know this is probably dumb, but I just wanted to throw this out there.