Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread powah
My image is 640 x 512 pixels X Y resolution are both 300 pixels/in. How to improve the image so that the OCR programs will recognize the text better? I try the Scale Image menu with different values of pixels X Y resolutions (e.g. 1920 x 1536 pixels X Y resolution are both 1200 pixels/in) but

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, powah wrote: My image is 640 x 512 pixels X Y resolution are both 300 pixels/in. How to improve the image so that the OCR programs will recognize the text better? I try the Scale Image menu with different values of pixels X Y resolutions (e.g. 1920 x 1536 pixels

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:08:31 + (UTC), powah wrote: My image is 640 x 512 pixels X Y resolution are both 300 pixels/in. How to improve the image so that the OCR programs will recognize the text better? I try the Scale Image menu with different values of pixels X Y resolutions (e.g. 1920

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread PoWah Wong
--- On Mon, 3/2/09, PoWah Wong wong_po...@yahoo.ca wrote: From: PoWah Wong wong_po...@yahoo.ca Subject: extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Received: Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:07 PM How to extract (get or copy) text in a rectangle from a jpg file?

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread PoWah Wong
--- On Thu, 3/5/09, Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com wrote: From: Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file To: PoWah Wong wong_po...@yahoo.ca Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Received: Thursday, March 5, 2009, 7:14 AM On Thu, Mar