On 03-10, James Miller wrote:
> Sounds like a good alternate solution for you, Hal - but one which is
> likely only available for proprietary operating systems produced by
> corporations bent on world market domination - would be speech recognition
> software. Read your friend's note into the comp
On 03-10, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 08:59 AM 3/10/2004 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> [...]
> >> 1. Run a program that will scan to an image file, then a separate program
> >> that will do OCR on the scanned image.
> >
> >Done - scan to PBM (P4) then run Gocr to get a bit mapped
> >file.. Tro
At 08:59 AM 3/10/2004 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
[...]
> 1. Run a program that will scan to an image file, then a separate program
> that will do OCR on the scanned image.
Done - scan to PBM (P4) then run Gocr to get a bit mapped
file.. Trouble is; even using resolution 360, slow and a big
Sounds like a good alternate solution for you, Hal - but one which is
likely only available for proprietary operating systems produced by
corporations bent on world market domination - would be speech recognition
software. Read your friend's note into the computer, and have it produce
typed and fo
On 03-09, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 09:29 AM 3/9/2004 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >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
At 09:29 AM 3/9/2004 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
[...]
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
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 con
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
sca
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)
M
