Re: Sprite files

From	Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Sprite files
Date	2025-02-26 21:03 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<e40d68f55b.Kevin@Kevsoft> (permalink)
References	(3 earlier) <5bf3aa4d8bdave@triffid.co.uk> <5bf3b9342anewsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> <5bf41b6693dave@triffid.co.uk> <5bf5356db2dave@triffid.co.uk> <5bf5501d72newslists@npost.uk>

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In message <5bf5501d72newslists@npost.uk>
          Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> wrote:

>In article <5bf5356db2dave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk>
>wrote:
>> In article <5bf41b6693dave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk>
>> wrote: [Snip a lot]
>
>> > Indeed John, Back in in the days when I was running my business I did
>> > try with Sleuth 3... Goodness me, did we (Fay and I) try hard, but as
>> > I've previously noted it was so problematic and unreliable, just not
>> > usable in a business situation.
>
><snip>
>
>> Scan in 8bit Grayscale at 100, 150, 200, 300, 400 dpi.
>
>> Take the images (Not Jpegs as I want to keep the images clean) to the
>> RISC OS side. (BMP or PNG)
>
>> Use DPlingScan to reduce to 4bpp then Save as a Spritefile.
>
>> 100, 150, 200dpi completely useless.
>
>> 300dpi OCR'd very well with just a few things out of place.
>
>> 400dpi OCR'd completely okay.
>
>I usually get good results doing things that way (More or less).
>
>I was trying to do something slightly different.
>I have a file which consists of many, many PDF pages.
>They contain the words to approx 2075 jazz tunes.
>I wanted one so I used !Snapper to tack a screen shot.
>I also tried outputting a whole page fro !PDF then cropping what I didn't
>need. Also tried the same from MuView.
>'Twould seem Sleuth doesn't want to lay with sprites taken like this.
>It seems
>

If you want text from a PDF file their is PDFutils from:

<https://www.riscos.info/packages/DocumentDetails.html#PDFUtilsarm>

You can use my front end to it KPDFutil

<http://kevsoft.co.uk/#KPDFutil>


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Kev Wells
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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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