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Re: Computing Editorial (please read)



On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 08:54:03 +0000, Paul Schlyter wrote:

>> A lot of stuff is available scanned,  but locked up in PDF files etc. 
>> It would be useful to have a means of extracting that scan and passing
>> it on to OCR software.
>  
> You can always display it on your screen with Acrobat Reader, do a screen
> capture, with e.g. Paint Shop Pro, into a graphics file, and then OCR that
> file.

Or tell some program like Ghostscript to "print" all pages in seperate BMP
files. Much easier than making snapshots of the screen.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch