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| From | Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.misc |
| Subject | Re: Sprite files |
| Date | 2025-02-27 23:32 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <7f87f9f55b.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (6 earlier) <5bf5356db2dave@triffid.co.uk> <5bf5501d72newslists@npost.uk> <93f055f55b.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <bcbb56f55b.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <5bf5f2ac6enewslists@npost.uk> |
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!
--
Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
Those who can't write, write manuals.
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Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 14:02 +0000
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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
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Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 17:24 +0000
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Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-24 18:50 +0100
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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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