Re: picture formats
- Posted by gertie at ad-tek.net Aug 06, 2001
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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