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Re: OCR
At 11:55 AM 1/2/97 -0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:56 +0200, Eric Smith wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend an OCR utility to use in conjunction with hylafax.
> I travel with a pocket VT100 Terminal Emulator and would like to read
> incoming faxes arriving at my server. I figure this is the only way to
> do this.
>
>Are you trying to convert faxes to ASCII format? There are utilities
>for converting TIFF fax format to PostScript (`fax2ps' or `tiff2ps')
>and PostScript to ASCII (`ps2ascii'), but I suspect the results would
>be rather lame, especially when a fax contains graphics.
Correct me if i am wrong but isn't TIFF Fax format a bitmap format ? Since there
is no OCR component in these routines (xxx2ps) or ps2ascii so I think this
approach
won't work at all (besides failing on graphics). I'd love to hear about OCR
packages
though.
Suresh.
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