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calling OCR hackers	by dennismv	2007-07-27 15:54:16
well ... I have something like this: imagine gif picture of text. Thus text is fontically perfect -- there are no smudges or warped/tilted letters. I have tons of these pictures that I need to convert to ascii. Question is how. One way to do it is to retype the text. That was tedious. I had someone do it before and he did it very quickly. I asked if it was OCR that he was using, he said no. I didn't find out how it was done then. That was a while ago and I tried looking for the email from this guy to ask him how he did it but I couldn't find it. So I tried OCR now and while fonts are perfect -- no holes or smudges, OCR keeps making mistakes on letters. Question: is there an automated way for this conversion ? One way I can think of is font matching, but haven't found an OCR program that does this. Well OCR results are not perfect but tolerable. But what bugs me is that he said he did not use OCR and his results were perfect. How did he do it ?
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How many words per picture and how many pictures?	by kahuana	2007-07-27 16:06:21
Not guaranteed to be perfect. :) (n/t)	by sgrunt	2007-07-27 16:07:42
perfection	by dennismv	2007-07-27 16:17:33
around a hundred pictures	by dennismv	2007-07-27 16:16:53
How 'bout the picture quality...	by jdelphiki	2007-07-27 16:39:50
thanks	by dennismv	2007-07-27 17:03:13
Some OCR programs are better than others.	by Didactylos	2007-07-27 17:14:33
Yep...	by jdelphiki	2007-07-27 21:17:18

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