On Friday 21 February 2003 08:58 am, Claus Lund wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the right list for this kind of question so please point me in the right direction if it isn't.
The scenario: We have a large archive of documents that have been scanned and stored as GIF or JPEG files. Some are in full color, some are grey-scale and some are black and white. It has now been decided to try using an OCR tool to extract the text from the images in an attempt to make it easier to search and use this source of information. The OCR tools we have been looking at require a black and white or grey-scale TIFF or a PGM or PBM as input. So we need a utillity that can convert all the GIF and JPEG images to one of those formats. And since the archive contains 50,000+ images then it would be highly desireable to find a utillity that can run from the command line so that we can write some script to automate the entire process.
Thanks in advance, Claus
Hi, I'm not sure I understand correctly what you're wanting to do, but thought I'd at least try to help somehow, heh. Perhaps the app 'imgseek' is what you can use? http://imgseek.sourceforge.net/ Sorry if this isn't what you need, but at least you know people are trying to help you. <S> Take care and be good. John