Re: picture formats
On Monday 06 August 2001 18:06, Chris Bensler wrote:
> >
> jif? I've never heard of JIF format pics. Do you mean GIF? there's a lib in
> the archives. I incorperated it into exoticaX. Works well. You could also
> try looking at www.wotsit.org
JIF is a format designed to replace GIF's, without the stupid LZW compression
license hassle. Converters are fairly common, look on any freeware site.
> As for recognizing text in pics. Good luck!! You 'could' make an app to
> pick out solid forms of colour. which most graphic text is. Unless it's
> fancy text, or antialiased. But even then, you could also look for sharp
> lines and geometric shapes in the image to help discern unnatural shapes
> in the pic. More than likely you would need some form of database, with
> pics of each letter of each font you wish to recognize. So that a
> comparison could be made, to decide if in fact the suspected shape is text
> or not. Lines would certainly be alot easier to discern.
If you can clean up the background, most any software that can convert
a scanned page into text can covert the image to text. Even the one that
comes "free" with M$ Works can do a halfway acceptable job.
You can buy much better text recognition software, of course.
Regards,
Irv
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