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From: "heisspf@skyinet.net" <heisspf@skyinet.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Converting .gif to .txt
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 01:42:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <380-2200624964217314@M2W030.mail2web.com> (raw)

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 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.

Thanks for any information.

Peter

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             reply	other threads:[~2006-02-09  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-09  6:42 heisspf [this message]
2006-02-09  8:08 ` Converting .gif to .txt Andrew
2006-02-09 13:21   ` James Miller
2006-02-10  6:46   ` Peter
2006-02-09 14:08 ` joy merwin monteiro
2006-02-09 14:14 ` Yawar Amin

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