From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Subject: Re: Converting .gif to .txt Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:08:44 +0100 Message-ID: <43EAF88C.60704@arrakis.es> References: <380-2200624964217314@M2W030.mail2web.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <380-2200624964217314@M2W030.mail2web.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - 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