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Article #381Re: Extracting text from graphics files
From: Synic
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:25
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:25
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dadiOH <dadiOH@guesswhere.com> wrote: > Phred wrote: >> G'day mates, >> >> I'm just wondering if there is a convenient (and free) program for >> extracting at least small amounts of text from a graphics file. > > There is no "text" in a graphics file; what there is are pictures that > you choose to call text. In order to manipulate those pictures as > "text" you need an OCR (optical character recognition) program. Now that's not *entirely* true. The GIF format supports internal labels. Run GIMP and save as GIF, you'll get the option to set a GIF comment (by default "Created with The GIMP" but you can change it to anything). There are also a few other XML or text based image formats that may also have textual label fields. But yeah, chanced are Phred just wants an OCR tool ;-).
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