On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:06:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: > On 12/14/09, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have > > predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no file extension. > > > > Running `file` on it shows it to be a "Microsoft Office Document", but > > it's apparently not the kind you can open in Word. > > > > I suspect this is going to prove a dead loss. Thanks for your help, > > though. > > Throwing a wild guess here. Could it be a MODI object? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODI > > Then you have entered captive markets, might be hard to do much > without software from MS.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the original object a image of a signature? If they used MODI (whose point I thought was so that you have OCR on the scanned document) for an illegible scrawl, I think this should be nominated for the DailyWTF.... Cheers, W -- A cliche is a cliche is a cliche is a cliche is a cliche is a cliche. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1102 days, 14:07
