[nukkad] pic to text

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Everyone is born right-handed. Only the greatest overcome it.
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I was conceptualising a software that reads scanned text
pages and converts that to ascii text.

It seems technically possible. I scan a page typed in
english. and ask the software to process it. The software
starts reading it bit by bit and it keeps on matching it
with various fonts files available in the computer.

To start with, we can highlight font/ size/ bold etc
features to help the software find a quicker match, but I
think it can be automatically done by the software. On the
other hand, we can even select a small text area and
manually type in the word written there to "tell" the
software to find match.

So it extracts the ascii charaters from the bit pattern, and
saves in a text file (for that matter, it can even construct
formatted text files like winword's .doc).

If such a software exists, please give me the url.

If not, is there any able programmer son of mother india who
can set out to develop this? It is going to be revolutionary
product. It will facilitate so many things. Faxes/
photocopies, entire books can automatically be converted to
text and then can be edited.

Guess the market potential of this.

-Rawat



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