[ale] Converting Tiff images

[jknapka at charter.net (Joe Knapka)]

"Christopher S. Adams" wrote:
> 
> do you want an ascii art version of the original image? or just an ascii
> file with the data in it? if the latter is true, then you can use uuencode

Or do you want a text file containing the text in the image? If
so, you'll need optical-character-recognition software. There
are several open-source OCR projects on SourceForge; enter
"optical character" in the search box. It doesn't look like any
of them are prime-time-ready, though.

-- Joe
 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of John R.
> Allgood - Systems Administrator
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 4:49 PM
> To: Ale
> Subject: [ale] Converting Tiff images
> 
>         Is there anyway to convert an tiff image to a text file or ASCII text.
> Thanks for any input you may have.
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> John Allgood
> Systems Admin.
> Enhanced Solutions Computing
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