8 Jun
1999
8 Jun
'99
6:25 p.m.
But, and this applies to text as well, once you've
printed them out and
scanned them back in again, you've lost that structure. The scanner
produces a bitmap (probably a slightly distorted bitmap as noting is
perfect). It is _very_ difficult to automatically recover that structure
(would you like to write a program that analyses a bitmap and finds
component symbols in it?)
No, it is not difficult at all. Just go out and purchase (!?!) one of the
many pieces of software that does the trick. Sure, not mainstream, but
they are out there. They do a pretty good job, too. Not too much
different from OCR...
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org