Re: Converting .gif to .txt

[Peter <heisspf@skyinet.net>]

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:08:44 +0100
Andrew <ald2@arrakis.es> wrote:

> heisspf@skyinet.net wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >How can one convert a text document which has been scanned and therefore
> >has become a
> >.gif file back to a .txt file in order that one can copy and paste text
> >from it.
> >
> >I was told it can be done with some software in windows. Is there such
> >software in
> >Linux?
> >  
> >
> I've done this sort of thing under Windows using Optical Character 
> Recognition software bundled with a scanner. There are OCR programs 
> available for Linux (I think there's something called clara - not sure 
> now), but they take rather a lot of work (or did when I looked at them a 
> year or so ago).
> 
> >I was able to convert a .gif file in question to .pdf and open it with
> >acroread. Acroread has an option to convert to text, however, trying to do
> >it I get an empty file.
> >  
> >
> If you can convert to pdf, it is possible to cut and paste from xpdf to 
> certain editors (Open Office, gedit. Not abiword), but results are 
> hardly perfect and will probably need quite a bit of editing).

Yes that seems to work when apparently the file was written as pdf, however,
not with a file converted from gif to pdf. I did this conversion with xpaint
and I think all it does changing the suffix. Opening it with mc the
pdf looks the same as the gif file.

Thanks for all the information.

Peter

> Andrew
>

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Peter
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