Re: OCR

[Maverick Research Inc Pte Ltd <maverick@pacific.net.sg>]

At 11:55 AM 1/2/97 -0800, you wrote:
>On Thu,  2 Jan 1997 14:56 +0200, Eric Smith wrote:
>
>    Can anyone recommend an OCR utility to use in conjunction with hylafax.
>    I travel with a pocket VT100 Terminal Emulator and would like to read 
>    incoming faxes arriving at my server.  I figure this is the only way to 
>    do this.
>
>Are you trying to convert faxes to ASCII format?  There are utilities
>for converting TIFF fax format to PostScript (`fax2ps' or `tiff2ps')
>and PostScript to ASCII (`ps2ascii'), but I suspect the results would
>be rather lame, especially when a fax contains graphics.

Correct me if i am wrong but isn't TIFF Fax format a bitmap format ? Since there
is no OCR component in these routines (xxx2ps) or ps2ascii so I think this
approach 
won't work at all (besides failing on graphics). I'd love to hear about OCR
packages 
though. 

Suresh.
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