On 03-08, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 03:45 PM 3/8/2004 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >Greetings: Been reading and viewing tons of stuff but can't seem to
> >find if there's a "simple" solution I need..
> >
> >Would like to scan a normal black on white typewritten page to a PBM
> >file, "P4", then convert that to a standard text ascii file.. (My
> >scanner is a HP ScanJet IIC, that defaults PBM)
> >
> >My "pen friend" insists on sending me snail mail and letting me reply
> >via eMail.. I would like to import part of his text into my document
> >- as is usually done..
> >
> >Any suggestions as to an easy solution? Both the OCR programs and
> >PBMPlus package are, seemingly, way too powerful for my simple
> >requirement.. (Or are they?) <grin>
>
> Well ... if you want to convert the text in a graphic image .... whether it
> is on a page or in a file ... to ascii text, you need to do OCR. That's
> what "OCR" means, after all. I haven't done this on Linux myself, but my
> instinct would be to try gocr for it, especially since the package docs for
> it say it reads pbm files (among other types).
Greetings Ray and thanks for the input.. I've fetched gocr
and noted the "text in graphic image" mentioned and should compile it
to see if it'll work for me, but it needs some dependencies I don't
have on this machine so thought I'd try the easy query way first.
I was, hoping, to find a program that will convert the scan
to plain ordinary character generated text, rather than bit mapped..
I'm hazy about what all this means plus my quest for simplicity is
not the modern way to think.. I want to, merely, write the guy using
all my brain power to compose/answer his letter - not spend all my
time figuring out complicated manipulations for non significant
stuff.. <g>
Appreciate!!
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)
Utrum Per Hebdomadem Perveniam
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