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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (george)
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Subject: Re: How can I extract text from a PICT?
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Date: 6 Jun 91 23:29:44 GMT
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:>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

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

somewhat less overkill.. SuperGlue will do this nicely.



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-george            george@mech.seas.upenn.edu