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From: klefstad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sue Klefstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How can I extract text from a PICT?
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.220548.23812@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 22:05:48 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.141300.5216@am.dsir.govt.nz>
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) writes:

>I want to extract a table of numbers from a PICT file without typing in all
>the numbers by hand. The best way I have so far is to change the file to a
>TEXT file and edit it by hand. The numbers are in there surrounded by junk.
>I was wondering if anyone knew a good way of doing this automatically.

>The nearest I have found is that MacDraw II can spell check the PICT and
>it checks all the text to do it. If I could persuade it to save all the
>text into a file that would do the trick.

Perhaps massive overkill, but an OCR (optical character recognition)
program would do this.

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Sue Klefstad    Ill. Natural History Survey    s-klefstad@uiuc.edu