Re: OCR

["Scott J. Kramer" <sjk@graham.com>]

On Fri,  3 Jan 1997 08:18 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:

    Scott J. Kramer 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.
    
    I can't imagine that ps2ascii gives you any usefull strings if the
    PostScript was made from a TIFF file.

Correct -- I wasn't thinking too clearly when I replied to Eric. :-)

-sjk