Re: [DIS] A little history question
Brian Inglis <Bri...@SystematicSw.ab.ca> wrote: > Looks like you might be able to do something like that using a > regular OCR program, matching the character cell detail against a > standard glyph's characteristics, perhaps after training against > samples of a given output character set. Certainly I could, but the important part of my question was who was doing it in 1996 or earlier :). However, since I posted the original article I have come across Gifscii, which does exactly what I wanted, and appeared on the net as early as 1994: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1994Feb16.134427.1%40acad.drake.edu Now I'm wondering if anyone might know of a magazine or other dated published document which might contain a reference to Gifscii from that period (published in or prior to October 1996).
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