Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>]

BlackJack wrote:
> 
> 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.

How do we do that?  I have the W98 installation of gs and gsv
here.  AFAICT they only output to the printer, not to files.  If
they do get out to a file, where do I find an OCR system?  I
probably don't want to get into all this anyhow.

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