> On Dec 26, 2018, at 10:30 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> On 12/26/2018 03:29 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
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>> A good way to remove the black lines?
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>> https://i.imgur.com/dvY973s.png
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> Oh, boy! The printer was not properly aligned, so the lines actually overlay
> the dot-matrix printed text! This is going to make OCR very difficult! I
> don't think you can just get rid of the lines, that will drop dots from the
> characters, too. A bad situation.
At some point the simplest answer is to type it all in again. I've been doing
work on old software using old listings. Some are nice and clean and OCR just
fine. Some are so muddy that they are hard to read for humans, and utterly
hopeless for OCR. It's no fun to type in 300 pages of assembly code, but
sometimes that's the only way.
paul
