On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Reko Turja <reko.tu...@liukuma.net> wrote:
> > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Gary Kline" <kl...@thought.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:23 AM > To: "Andrew Gould" <andrewlylego...@gmail.com> > Cc: "Reko Turja" <reko.tu...@liukuma.net>; "FreeBSD Mailing List" < > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: OCR... > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:33:41PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: >>> >>> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:32:57PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: >>> > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> > > >>> wrote: >>> >> > > > > well, damage is probably done. how can i check the > > > >>> resolution? >>> > > > i tried to increase it by creating huge ppm and tif > > > >>> files, but >>> > > > then that's really absurd since there can only be just > > > >>> so much >>> > > > data per image. i _could_ try xv and jpeg and > > > >>> smoothing image >>> >> > Yeah, if the image resolution is already at 72DPI, there's sadly no trick > in the world that can reliably return the "lost" information. I've read some > horrid scans with low resolution in Finereader, and it can grab much of the > information nicely. With low resolution be prepared to manually correcting > problem spots though. Only reliable way to quesstimate resolution is the > font size when at 100% in the screen. If the text is about 10 pixels high, > the information has probably been stored in 72DPI for space saving purposes. > > Wasn't aware of the FreeBSD/Linux backend, but if that works it'd be great > - haven't myself visited their website in ages as the version I have does > the job I got it for. > > -Reko > I may have used the wrong term. I think it used to be an sdk; but now there's a product with "extended platform support" for Linux and FreeBSD. Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"