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Article #10730Re: How can I extract text from a PICT?
From: Don Gillies
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1991 07:07
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1991 07:07
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There is a simple way to extract text from a PICT. Do you have access to a modem and a remote computer? Try printing your PICT to the imagewriter in "DRAFT" mode, to the modem port, "cat"ting it to a file on the remote machine (in UNIXspeak). The printer driver will bypass all the lines in the PICTure. Then download the file from the remote machine. There is also a printer driver called "Daisy" that prints to a daisy wheel printer; if the imagewriter idea doesn't work, consider using daisy. I have used daisy in this way before, so I know it works. However, sometimes "Daisy" will overstrikes characters if the font is too small and the characters are too close together, losing some information from your PICT. Don Gillies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gillies@cs.uiuc.edu | Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL --
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: How can I extract text from a PICT? Message-ID: <1991Jun8.070701.14490@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 8 Jun 91 07:07:01 GMT References: <1991Jun6.141300.5216@am.dsir.govt.nz> Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 18