Re: picture formats
- Posted by gertie at ad-tek.net
Aug 06, 2001
On 6 Aug 2001, at 15:06, Chris Bensler wrote:
>
> jif? I've never heard of JIF format pics. Do you mean GIF?
Yes, you know, like you can store on xip disks?
> there's a lib in the archives.
> I incorperated it into exoticaX. Works well. You could also try looking at
> www.wotsit.org
>
> 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.
Yeas, i was going to try for line finding first, and going on length and width
of the line,
determining what is was from a known plot of the place, and possibly doing a
pattern
match in areas. Time consuming, i expect.
Kat
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