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- From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: fax images (GPFax)
- Message-ID: <15204@suns6.crosfield.co.uk>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 08:25:06 GMT
- References: <richardc.04ad@vogue.adsp.sub.org> <1992Aug19.150957.28071@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>
- Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
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- In article <1992Aug19.150957.28071@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
- >We solved the problem. It turns out that Migraph OCR likes the
- >IFF files created from the faxes just fine if we use the "detail"
- >or "fine" setting on the FAX machine at work. There _was_ some
- >very tiny print that OCR couldn't cope with very well, but aside
- >from that, it worked amazingly well. 'Course I've never seen any
- >other OCR program in operation ;-{).
-
- Aha! I think I may know why...
-
- I bet the OCR program expects more-or-less-square pixels.
- In fine mode that's true, so it works..
-
- In standard mode, fax images have pixels with around a 2:1 aspect ratio,
- so the OCR software, if it expected pixels to be square, would see
- "squashed" letters, and fail to recognise them - that probably accounts
- for your 'tried to eat 2 lines at a time' too...
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