Re: Converting .gif to .txt

[Andrew <ald2@arrakis.es>]

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).

>Thanks for any information.
>
>Peter
>  
>
HTH

Andrew
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