Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-05 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, PoWah Wong wrote: > Attached is the image. > It has some text inside some rectangles. Looks heavily compressed, greycstoration probably could really reduce the jpeg artifacts, plus adjusting the levels might help. (As I wrote earlier.) I'm not sure I want to know wha

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread PoWah Wong
--- On Thu, 3/5/09, Chris Mohler wrote: > From: Chris Mohler > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file > To: "PoWah Wong" > Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Received: Thursday, March 5, 2009, 7:14 AM > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread PoWah Wong
--- On Mon, 3/2/09, PoWah Wong wrote: > From: PoWah Wong > Subject: extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file > To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Received: Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:07 PM > How to extract (get or copy) text in a rectangle from a jpg > file? > i.e. the jpg file has a rectan

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:08:31 + (UTC), powah wrote: > My image is 640 x 512 pixels & X Y resolution are both 300 pixels/in. > How to improve the image so that the OCR programs will recognize the text > better? > I try the "Scale Image" menu with different values of pixels & X Y resolutions > (e

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, powah wrote: > My image is 640 x 512 pixels & X Y resolution are both 300 pixels/in. > How to improve the image so that the OCR programs will recognize the text > better? I try the "Scale Image" menu with different values of pixels & X Y > resolutions (e.g. 1920 x 1536 p

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread powah
My image is 640 x 512 pixels & X Y resolution are both 300 pixels/in. How to improve the image so that the OCR programs will recognize the text better? I try the "Scale Image" menu with different values of pixels & X Y resolutions (e.g. 1920 x 1536 pixels & X Y resolution are both 1200 pixels/in)

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Cozens
PoWah Wong wrote: > How to extract (get or copy) text in a rectangle from a jpg file? > i.e. the jpg file has a rectangle which has some text (character strings). > How to get those text to a text file? You need to take a look at some of the OCR programs like Tesseract (http://code.google.com/p

[Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-02 Thread PoWah Wong
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