Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 22 Nov 2000.
OCR software for ASCII ???
alt.ascii-art
· 4 messages · 22 Nov 2000 - 23 Nov 2000
Does anyone know of any OCR software that is capable of turning a picture into some kind of ascii art??
>>Does anyone know of any OCR software that is capable of turning a picture >>into some kind of ascii art?? > There are plenty of programs that turn pictures into ascii, but none of them are > OCR software. yep. most of the converters suck. if you want more or less usable asciis, grab the gifscii code in c and alter it a bit (the translation table needs some altering, according to your preferances). cya
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. ;-) regards ronald
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. -- | _ \ _ ^~ email:bateau at jupiterio.net | <')_,/ , ; \ >(')__, . ` ' , ,______________._ | (_~=/ \._`.'. \ (_~_/ _, '------:_______ ;==( *BANG* | ='- \=~_) ; \ ~^~~^~ ` (_~_/ | | `-\ \ *BANG* | ICQ:11367619 -'= \ ~^~~^~ `~' \_;
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