On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > unless your copier is smarter than any copier i've ever met (and i do > use a 6-month-old $80,000 copier daily. it's not as smart as it'd > need to be to do what you want), it scanned the document as an image. > none of the "to text" tricks work because there is no text--just a > picture of letters.
T'wasn't my copier. I was sent the file. > what you want is OCR software. while i've not used any in the past 10 > years, this seems to be a (the?) leading contender in the open source > world: > > http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ I've successfully used jocr several times. Thanks, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
