Hi Ronan
There is a fine OCR program in RH 7.3 which I am sure will reduce the size
considerable.
In fact there is a fine OCR program in the Windows box into which I scanned
then as I have not got the scanner to work in the Linux box. Seems I have a
slight interrupt problem there which I am working on.
But no I haven't OCR them.
All I have done so far is to burn them to a disk.
Why laze I guess or maybe it is that I recall my last venture in mass OCRing
and the enormous amount of time it consumed. That was a bit much though. Two
directories that were equivalent to 2 volumes of a New York City telephone
directory.
Frank
>
> Have you tried running an OCR program against these TIF files? It would
> probably render down to a text file of 4KB or so. I have used 'gocr' in
> the past (on Linux), and the results were OK. Moving TIFs of text is
> really a yucky solution (especially if OCR works).
>
> --ronan
On Friday 16 August 2002 03:56, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> > Well as luck would have it no more than mentioned this list than I
> > misplaced it. Seems that I put it in one of those special places where I
> > would not loose the list so I lost the place. Dumb. Anyway I found the
> > list - again - yesterday and converted it into 135 .tif files each 954256
> > bites in size.
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