Re: Extracting text from graphics files

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From: dadiOH
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:39

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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.

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