From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "heisspf@skyinet.net" Subject: Converting .gif to .txt Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 01:42:17 -0500 Message-ID: <380-2200624964217314@M2W030.mail2web.com> Reply-To: heisspf@skyinet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs