Re: picture formats
- Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Aug 06, 2001
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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