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Article #10679Re: How can I extract text from a PICT?
From: Sue Klefstad
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 22:05
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 22:05
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tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) writes: >I want to extract a table of numbers from a PICT file without typing in all >the numbers by hand. The best way I have so far is to change the file to a >TEXT file and edit it by hand. The numbers are in there surrounded by junk. >I was wondering if anyone knew a good way of doing this automatically. >The nearest I have found is that MacDraw II can spell check the PICT and >it checks all the text to do it. If I could persuade it to save all the >text into a file that would do the trick. Perhaps massive overkill, but an OCR (optical character recognition) program would do this. -- - Sue Klefstad Ill. Natural History Survey s-klefstad@uiuc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!klefstad From: klefstad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sue Klefstad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: How can I extract text from a PICT? Message-ID: <1991Jun6.220548.23812@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 6 Jun 91 22:05:48 GMT References: <1991Jun6.141300.5216@am.dsir.govt.nz> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 17