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From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Translating PostScript to ASCII: A Proposal
Keywords: PostScript ASCII OCR
Message-ID: <23304@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 23 Feb 91 09:05:57 GMT
Distribution: comp
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A perennial question here is how to translate PostScript to
ASCII. It occurred to me that if you have OCR software and a
PostScript to bitmap converter like GoScript, you could combine
the two to get a good approximation of the original document.  
Avoid the intermediate step of printing the PostScript and
scanning the image back in as this will degrade the image
quality and the inherent regularity of character bitmaps that
come from using a direct PostScript to bitmap conversion.
 
Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)