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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:11:46 +0200
From:      "Reko Turja" <reko.turja@liukuma.net>
To:        "Gary Kline" <kline@thought.org>, "Andrew Gould" <andrewlylegould@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OCR...
Message-ID:  <E90827F901134030B951FC852CEB4B01@rivendell>
In-Reply-To: <20090129022349.GB34877@thought.org>
References:  <20090128040802.GA94236@thought.org><319D789FD18042DBB7A19571DA26E5AE@rivendell><20090128192211.GB22208@thought.org><d356c5630901281132g232f9b60y70c7ed4f750e4428@mail.gmail.com><20090128230916.GA29328@thought.org><d356c5630901281733o52f2c2d4u84f4435ba8a2fcbb@mail.gmail.com> <20090129022349.GB34877@thought.org>

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From: "Gary Kline" <kline@thought.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:23 AM
To: "Andrew Gould" <andrewlylegould@gmail.com>
Cc: "Reko Turja" <reko.turja@liukuma.net>; "FreeBSD Mailing List"=20
<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: OCR...

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:33:41PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>=20
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:32:57PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>=20
>> > > wrote:

>> > > >        well, damage is probably done.  how can i check the=20
>> > > > resolution?
>> > > >        i tried to increase it by creating huge ppm and tif=20
>> > > > files, but
>> > > >        then that's really absurd since there can only be just=20
>> > > > so much
>> > > >        data per image.  i _could_ try xv and jpeg and=20
>> > > > smoothing image

Yeah, if the image resolution is already at 72DPI, there's sadly no=20
trick in the world that can reliably return the "lost" information.=20
I've read some horrid scans with low resolution in Finereader, and it=20
can grab much of the information nicely. With low resolution be=20
prepared to manually correcting problem spots though. Only reliable=20
way to quesstimate resolution is the font size when at 100% in the=20
screen. If the text is about 10 pixels high, the information has=20
probably been stored in 72DPI for space saving purposes.

Wasn't aware of the FreeBSD/Linux backend, but if that works it'd be=20
great - haven't myself visited their website in ages as the version I=20
have does the job I got it for.

-Reko=20




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