Disk Drive Documents

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue Jun 8 18:25:14 1999

> But, and this applies to text as well, once you've printed them out and
> scanned them back in again, you've lost that structure. The scanner
> produces a bitmap (probably a slightly distorted bitmap as noting is
> perfect). It is _very_ difficult to automatically recover that structure
> (would you like to write a program that analyses a bitmap and finds
> component symbols in it?)

No, it is not difficult at all. Just go out and purchase (!?!) one of the
many pieces of software that does the trick. Sure, not mainstream, but
they are out there. They do a pretty good job, too. Not too much
different from OCR...

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Tue Jun 08 1999 - 18:25:14 BST