Hey Bill! Haven't read you for quite awhile. Some of us were wondering
where you'd gone. You musta been out physically dragging home that elusive
IBM 360 you've been lusting after ;) Welcome back!
Regards, Chris
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Upon the date 07:25 PM 6/8/99 -0400, William Donzelli said something like:
>> 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
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Received on Tue Jun 08 1999 - 20:17:45 BST