Re: [Sheflug] Convert JPEG to Acsii

[Chris J <cej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Warburton wrote:
> 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.
>>
>  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. 

If you want to OCR look at using gocr (http://jocr.sourceforge.net/) ... 
  I use this with in my mail delivery chain to remove the image-based 
spam. Works quite well :-)

Chris...





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