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From Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject Re: Sprite files
Date Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:24:02 +0000 (GMT)
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In article <7f87f9f55b.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>,
   Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> On 27 Feb 2025 as I do recall,
>           Chris Newman  wrote:

> [snip]


> > The original book was printed from a home computer. That has then been
> > taken apart re runthrough an automatic feed sacanner to produce a file of
> > 397 PDF pages (171Mb). Each page has several songs distributed over two
> > columns.
> > 
> > By uing !PDF and zooming the view up mightinly I was able to take a
> > screen shot of just he song I wanted. 
> > 
> > Running that through ChngeFSI at monochrome resulted in a block of black
> > instead of text unless I set the output to 256 colours. Then Sleuth3
> > worked.
> > 
> > The output wasn't brilliant due to the imitations of te original.
> > 
> Yes, scanned text is unlikely to work well (especially as those scanned
> PDF compilations tend to contain images in the form of compressed lossy
> JPEGS -- fine for the human eye but not too good for magnification to
> the sort of resolution required for OCR).

> Transcribing a single song manually off the screen might have been
> quicker!

I've got a paper copy of the book somewhere. As necessary, I'll scan
pages to get an appropriate sprite file of the bit I want.

I just thought getting them out of the PDF vesion might be simpler. Silly
me!

-- 
Chris

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  Re: Sprite files Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-02-22 14:06 +0000
    Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-23 10:55 +0000
      Re: Sprite files Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2025-02-23 11:31 +0000
        Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-23 12:01 +0000
          Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-23 23:34 +0000
      Re: Sprite files Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-02-23 11:54 +0000
        Re: Sprite files John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-02-23 14:37 +0000
          Re: Sprite files Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-02-24 08:30 +0000
            Sprite files Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-02-26 11:50 +0000
              Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-26 16:42 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-26 17:45 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-26 17:54 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-26 21:10 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-26 22:04 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-27 10:07 +0100
                Re: Sprite files druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-02-28 09:51 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 10:45 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-28 12:38 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 14:02 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-28 15:58 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-28 20:02 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 11:07 +0000
                Re: Sprite files druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-02-28 14:17 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-27 22:17 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-27 23:32 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-28 00:24 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 10:45 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-28 12:50 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-28 15:57 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 17:24 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-28 20:37 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 21:26 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-01 11:31 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-23 19:14 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-24 11:38 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-24 15:20 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-24 18:50 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-24 18:46 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-25 10:33 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-25 10:40 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-25 19:52 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Alan Griffin <ajg@argonet.co.uk> - 2025-03-25 21:45 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-25 23:16 +0100
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-25 23:52 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-25 21:58 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2025-02-27 23:27 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-28 15:53 +0000
                Re: Sprite files Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2025-02-26 21:03 +0000
      Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-24 10:42 +0100

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