[PLUG] Image conversion
Alice Corbin
ali at axian.com
Tue Feb 25 14:11:01 UTC 2003
I tend to use the ImageMagick utility 'convert' for such things.
I use it on Linux, but I bet that you could download a windows exe.
www.imagemagick.org/
Ali
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:55:36PM -0800, Robert Kopp wrote:
> There are few situations in which I would benefit from
> the use of OCR, but I could imagine circumstances
> under which I would want to use it occasionally.
>
> I was able to get my USB scanner working with SANE,
> but the only mode that seems to be supported is 24-bit
> color. Most OCR programs require 1-bit input, which
> makes sense.
>
> I'm wondering whether it would be feasible to convert
> the scanned images containing text from 24-bit to
> 1-bit, and if so, what software would do it. The only
> point in OCR is to save time, so unless the process is
> reasonably convenient, it wouldn't be worth the
> trouble.
>
> I may use a Windows OCR program, so if the
> image-editing program is for Windows, it would be
> acceptable if it works under WINE.
>
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