image to text

[f15h]

Is there a program that converts .jpg or .bmp files to text?

I need a sig to use on a text only server.

merci,

die fische

 

[horndude]

ascii art library does that I believe, its an extension for C programming language, comes with most linux distro's

 

[TheMajor]

OCR can extract text from graphics.

 

[horndude]

I just checked, if you use GIMP it has an option to save a file as an AA or ascii art file which renders it into text, I tried a few pics, some look better than others, best way would be to tweak the AA lib settings a bit and see what you get

 

[Hugo82]

Right-click an image and select open with Notepad, is this what you mean ?

 

[horndude]

no he means ascii art, in other words taking an image like a bitmap or jpeg and converting it to the text equivalent----> made up of ascii characters so it can be rendered on a text browser

 

[f15h]

merci!

thanks, horndude and major, that was relly usefull.

merci,

die fische

 

[horndude]

here guys, this is what he's talking about:

http://home.columbus.rr.com/pedex

snowbike.jpg is a regular image

the other two are text renderings using ascii characters as image blocks, looks weird in your browser(I know), but if your using firefox, hit "ctrl -" to reduce the font size about 4 or 5 times and you'll see a decent black and white image, it can do color too.

before x servers and windows images were done this way instead, and for some folks they still are, text images can be displayed on frame buffer devices or terminals of any type

 

[horndude]

hey, go here:http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/

follow the links from homepage to "aview" and download that and the aa library, aview comes with a program called asciiview, it lets you convert images to text directly and edit the brightness,contrast, and gamma and stuff

 

[Sevoma]

Just don't use big images because it is super-slow to load and takes a while to generate.