Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Jan Goebel wrote:
>
> > you can maybe scanner/OCR software like GOCR (open source)
> > take a look at:
> > http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/index.html
>
> Sure. You can try it. But don't expect too much. When I last time (maybe a
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Jan Goebel wrote:
> you can maybe scanner/OCR software like GOCR (open source)
> take a look at:
> http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/index.html
Sure. You can try it. But don't expect too much. When I last time (maybe a
half year ago) tested all free OCR progr
Christopher Jones wrote:
> So my question is: is there any software out there which attempts to look at
> bitmaps and guess what the ascii would be-- something like those programs which
> read books through a scanner and try to match font characters to the image. And
> I say this question is a rea
Hello,
you can maybe scanner/OCR software like GOCR (open source)
take a look at:
http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/index.html
good luck
jan
PS: @christopher: if you were sucessfull, you may give me a reply?
maybe i need it sometimes, too.
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Matej Cepl w
Christopher Jones wrote:
> So my question is: is there any software out there which attempts to look at
> bitmaps and guess what the ascii would be-- something like those programs which
> read books through a scanner and try to match font characters to the image. And
> I say this question is a rea
Christopher Jones wrote:
>
> I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a
> bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal
> databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not
> extract text from these files,
I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a
bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal
databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not
extract text from these files, since there is no ascii content to
topher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: LyX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: reading text out of ps/pdf
>
> This is a reach, I know. But in the hopes that there is something out there for
> me, I'll ask the question: is there anything which reads text out of a bitmaped
> pdf or ps file?
>
This is a reach, I know. But in the hopes that there is something out there for
me, I'll ask the question: is there anything which reads text out of a bitmaped
pdf or ps file?
