Re: [Sheflug] Convert JPEG to Acsii

[Chris Warburton <chriswarbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 17:00 +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Seem to having a temporary loss of memory.
> 
> I've got some JPEGs that are my own.  Some of them have text in them 
> as well as images.  Was thinking that I might be able to convert JPEG 
> to ascii to extract the text.
> 
> Not sure if this is science fiction rather than fact but I was hoping 
> that I wouldn't have to completely re-write six pages of something.  
> Be easier to extract the text that is in the image files.
> 
> Regards
 For large amounts of text (ie. stuff you can't be bothered to
completely hand tweak anyway) then I'd look into OCR (optical character
recognition) rather than a plain ASCII rendering of the image. Not sure
what is available though, so your Googling would be as productive as
mine :)

Thanks,
Chris


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