[03:42] * seidos waves and has a seat [03:42] * rww particles back [03:43] * seidos laughs [03:45] RIP Nicole Eggert: http://jeremywheaton.typepad.com/my-blog/2011/05/rip-nicole-eggert.html [03:45] poor chicken [04:03] apparently, on lucid, if you right-click files and select Compress, the default format is .ar, which there is no gui way to extract whatsoever [04:03] heh === akk_ is now known as akk [04:59] aaditya, ping [05:22] http://geeknic.org/?p=149 [05:23] Geeknic next weekend in Walnut Creek at heather Farms === pleia2_ is now known as pleia2 [17:41] Does anybody know how to copy and paste a document to open office from a scan? [17:42] Hello? [17:44] scans are usually images in some pretty standard format, png or whatever -- just insert it like any other image [17:45] No I had to scan my book and i need to copy and paste it somewhere to make the font bigger [17:45] It's just scanned words [17:46] Oh, you want it to do OCR (optical character recognition) on the image it scanned? [17:46] OCR is the keyword to google for there. [17:46] How do i fix it so i could copy and paste it someplace else from a scan? [17:46] (I haven't done OCR myself, so can't help you, but google should have lots of stuff.) [17:46] k [17:48] This is frustrating because the font is too small for me to read so i was gonna try just putting it thru my computer and copying it someplace else to make it bigger [17:49] You can also scan at a higher resolution, or scale the image up in an image editing program, if the point is just to make it readable for you. [17:49] Is there any other way i could do that without OCR? [17:49] What would be a good image edition program? [17:49] gimp [17:49] oops [17:49] editing [17:50] I hate when i make typos [17:50] akk: I tried gimp there's so much to gimp that it ovewelmes me i'm used to paintshop [17:50] *overwelmes [17:50] There are simpler programs ... I'm kinda tied to gimp myself so I haven't used the simpler ones and can't compare them well. [17:51] Is there a way i could put it thru gimp then? [17:51] akk is the local expert on gimp. she's written books about it [17:51] I know some of the basic image viewing programs can do things like scaling up and down. [17:51] What program do you get if you just doubleclick on an image? Maybe whatever program that is can scale. [17:51] Like copy and paste from scanning [17:51] I just need to figure out how i make the font bigger in gimp then [17:51] Because gimp has a lot of things going on with it [17:52] Image->Scale is how to make things bigger in GIMP. [17:52] I used to be good with gimp but haven't used it in a while [17:52] I used to edit my pictures on there [17:53] After i scale the document then what? [17:54] Is it possible to use different fonts after that? [17:54] Like exchange the old font with a new one [17:55] hello [17:59] BrightAmbition: Please stop getting impatient if nobody answers you for 2 minutes. [17:59] People may occasionally need to leave the keyboard for one reason or another. [17:59] oh sorry [18:00] Pestering just irritates people and makes them not want to answer. [18:00] No, you can't change font if you're working with an image. [18:00] A scanned image is just pixels -- there's no information about the font or the text. [18:00] That's what OCR is for, to take an image and turn it into text. [18:21] ok [18:47] hey aaditya [18:47] hey ryaxnb and mpontillo [18:52] wassup mark [19:22] i seem to have read the text with gscan2pdf and ocropus, but there appears to be no way to save it [19:56] any ideas? [20:19] There's gotta be a way to save -- otherwise it wouldn't be useful. [20:19] i can't find a way [20:21] Got a scan I can test with ocropus? [20:21] And have you tried tesseract? When I installed ocropus it gave me a recommended package of tesseract-ocr [20:22] just import any graphic file into gscan2pdf [20:22] and when I run tesseract it gives a usage statement that includes an output filename [20:22] any graphic file even if it doesn't have text in it? That seems like a bad test. [20:22] tesseract cannot separate text from nontext in gscan2pdf, whereas ocropus reads line by line [20:23] i think ocropus is a fork of tesseract or something [20:25] ha, tesseract gets a seg fault [20:25] cuneiform is the one that won't run for me [20:26] I can't figure out how to run ocrscript (the only program ocropus installed). [20:26] gscan2pdf [20:27] That wants to install 28 packages, so I'm not going to do that just to help test. :) [20:27] ah [20:27] Besides, if I was scanning I wouldn't want PDF, I'd want something I could select and paste. [20:28] tesseract is supposed to be the way to go ... if I were desperate to do OCR I'd probably get the latest tesseract from source, since the one on lucid dumps core. [20:28] seems ocropus is not a fork of tesseract but a wrapper for it [20:28] I think there are also online sites that will ocr for you with tesseract. [20:28] yes, it's a wrapper [20:28] that makes it harder to use, AFAICT [20:29] whatta deal! [20:30] manpage: "Natively, Tesseract doesn't do layout analysis, but combined with OCRopus, it makes for a pretty good OCR system" [21:32] BrightAmbition, hello =) I am mostly idling... watching my kids etc [21:33] i ended up updating gscan2pdf from a ppa and it allowed me to save [21:33] oh I guess she's gone... now how do I tell xchat to show the dang user list [21:33] xchat shows it by default [21:33] I thought it did but I don't see it. [21:34] maybe you shrank it to zero size [21:34] ah there it is, it was all the way to the right such that it wasn't visible [21:34] try dragging it back from the right [21:34] thanks sn9, I don't remember doing that on purpose =) [21:35] I guess she is here, hehe. anyway - afk [21:35] right [21:45] ok i'm back [21:45] I've been trying to read over my lines [21:45] practicing for my monologue [21:45] oops [21:46] practicing for my theater class [21:46] jyo_: I got your email, thanks :). I'm going to send out mine this evening. [22:08] sn9: I think i'm better with improv or method acting [22:09] sn9: I hate when they give lines to remember i want it to come naturally