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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Nov 2000.
Re: OCR software for ASCII ???

Re: OCR software for ASCII ???

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 01:14:32 +0100 "ronald schaffhirt" <ro....@gmx.de> wrote:
>news.telus.net schrieb in Nachricht
><0DUS5.17083$24....@news0.telusplanet.net>...
>>Does anyone know of any OCR software that is capable of turning a picture
>>into some kind of ascii art??
>>
>>
>is it then art any longer? i don't know of such a software, but i'm sure
>it's possible. sorry, but i hope there is none. not that i would lose my
>job - i am an awful bad ascii artist - but i were sorry for those, whose
>passion it is, if they are to be made redundant.
>i'm sure, there's someone in this NG who would gladly diddle your picture
>rather than pointing you to such a program. ;-)

There are plenty of programs that turn pictures into ascii, but none of them are
OCR software.
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Subject: Re: OCR software for ASCII ???
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