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Subject: Re: Converting .gif to .txt
From: Peter <heisspf () skyinet ! net>
Date: 2006-02-10 6:46:18
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On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:08:44 +0100
Andrew <ald2@arrakis.es> wrote:
> heisspf@skyinet.net wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >How can one convert a text document which has been scanned and therefore
> >has become a
> >.gif file back to a .txt file in order that one can copy and paste text
> >from it.
> >
> >I was told it can be done with some software in windows. Is there such
> >software in
> >Linux?
> >
> >
> I've done this sort of thing under Windows using Optical Character
> Recognition software bundled with a scanner. There are OCR programs
> available for Linux (I think there's something called clara - not sure
> now), but they take rather a lot of work (or did when I looked at them a
> year or so ago).
>
> >I was able to convert a .gif file in question to .pdf and open it with
> >acroread. Acroread has an option to convert to text, however, trying to do
> >it I get an empty file.
> >
> >
> If you can convert to pdf, it is possible to cut and paste from xpdf to
> certain editors (Open Office, gedit. Not abiword), but results are
> hardly perfect and will probably need quite a bit of editing).
Yes that seems to work when apparently the file was written as pdf, however,
not with a file converted from gif to pdf. I did this conversion with xpaint
and I think all it does changing the suffix. Opening it with mc the
pdf looks the same as the gif file.
Thanks for all the information.
Peter
> Andrew
>
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Peter
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