Re: faint hope : .jpeg to .txt or .abw??

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Bear Tooth wrote:

> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:08:08 -0500 (EST)
> From: Bear Tooth <Beartooth@adelphia.net>
> To: abiword-user <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> Subject: faint hope : .jpeg to .txt or .abw??
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> My daughter found a card that interests me, and grabbed a
> jpeg image of it -- which is pretty fuzzy, and barely readable. It
> would be nice to be able to print the text in a suitable format,
> such as 3x5 cards, or paper bookmarks meant to go in a book. I
> suppose I could retype it, with AbiWord open on one desktop and the
> jpeg on another; but I'm lazy -- and some scan-&-convert program
> just barely might exist somewhere. Anybody know?

Clara OCR
http://www.geocities.com/claraocr/

there are probably other options too
but I sincerely doubt it will be worth the hassle
especially if the text if fuzzy to begin with

- Alan H
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Received on Sat Feb 4 17:19:25 2006