[Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

[PoWah Wong]

--- On Thu, 3/5/09, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file
> To: "PoWah Wong" <wong_powah at yahoo.ca>
> Cc: gimp-user at lists.xcf.berkeley.edu
> Received: Thursday, March 5, 2009, 7:14 AM
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM, PoWah Wong
> <wong_powah at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Attached is the image.
> > It has some text inside some rectangles.
> 
> Wow - that's tough.  No chance of getting the original
> at a higher
> res?  I tried tesseract and was only able to get roughly
> half of
> it....  In GIMP -> Grayscale -> Levels -> Scale
> about 200% -> Levels
> ->  Indexed -> save as TIFF.
> 
> Chris

No, that is the best res I get.



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