tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) (06/06/91)
I want to extract a table of numbers from a PICT file without typing in all the numbers by hand. The best way I have so far is to change the file to a TEXT file and edit it by hand. The numbers are in there surrounded by junk. I was wondering if anyone knew a good way of doing this automatically. The nearest I have found is that MacDraw II can spell check the PICT and it checks all the text to do it. If I could persuade it to save all the text into a file that would do the trick. Thanks, Tony Cooper sramtrc@albert.dsir.govt.nz
klefstad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sue Klefstad) (06/07/91)
tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) writes: >I want to extract a table of numbers from a PICT file without typing in all >the numbers by hand. The best way I have so far is to change the file to a >TEXT file and edit it by hand. The numbers are in there surrounded by junk. >I was wondering if anyone knew a good way of doing this automatically. >The nearest I have found is that MacDraw II can spell check the PICT and >it checks all the text to do it. If I could persuade it to save all the >text into a file that would do the trick. Perhaps massive overkill, but an OCR (optical character recognition) program would do this. -- - Sue Klefstad Ill. Natural History Survey s-klefstad@uiuc.edu
jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (george) (06/07/91)
:>I want to extract a table of numbers from a PICT file without typing in all :>the numbers by hand. The best way I have so far is to change the file to a :Perhaps massive overkill, but an OCR (optical character recognition) :program would do this. : somewhat less overkill.. SuperGlue will do this nicely. -- -george george@mech.seas.upenn.edu
gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) (06/08/91)
There is a simple way to extract text from a PICT. Do you have access to a modem and a remote computer? Try printing your PICT to the imagewriter in "DRAFT" mode, to the modem port, "cat"ting it to a file on the remote machine (in UNIXspeak). The printer driver will bypass all the lines in the PICTure. Then download the file from the remote machine. There is also a printer driver called "Daisy" that prints to a daisy wheel printer; if the imagewriter idea doesn't work, consider using daisy. I have used daisy in this way before, so I know it works. However, sometimes "Daisy" will overstrikes characters if the font is too small and the characters are too close together, losing some information from your PICT. Don Gillies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gillies@cs.uiuc.edu | Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL --
peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) (06/09/91)
In article <1991Jun6.141300.5216@am.dsir.govt.nz>, tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) writes: > I want to extract a table of numbers from a PICT file without typing in all > the numbers by hand. The best way I have so far is to change the file to a > TEXT file and edit it by hand. The numbers are in there surrounded by junk. > I was wondering if anyone knew a good way of doing this automatically. > > The nearest I have found is that MacDraw II can spell check the PICT and > it checks all the text to do it. If I could persuade it to save all the > text into a file that would do the trick. Make sure everything is ungrouped. Then select the text tool and select all. This should select all the text items. Cut this. Then select all again, press the delete key to remove everything that is left (DON'T USE CUT). Now paste back the text. This leaves you with just the text. -- Michael Peirce -- outpost!peirce@claris.com -- Peirce Software -- Suite 301, 719 Hibiscus Place -- Macintosh Programming -- San Jose, California 95117 -- & Consulting -- (408) 244-6554, AppleLink: PEIRCE
harv@harvs.UUCP (Patrick L. Harvey) (06/09/91)
In article <0B01FFFB.hmxoc7@outpost.UUCP>, peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes: > > In article <1991Jun6.141300.5216@am.dsir.govt.nz>, tony@tui.marcam.dsir.govt.nz (Tony Cooper) writes: > > I want to extract a table of numbers from a PICT file without typing in all > > the numbers by hand. The best way I have so far is to change the file to a > > TEXT file and edit it by hand. The numbers are in there surrounded by junk. > > I was wondering if anyone knew a good way of doing this automatically. > > > > The nearest I have found is that MacDraw II can spell check the PICT and > > it checks all the text to do it. If I could persuade it to save all the > > text into a file that would do the trick. > > Make sure everything is ungrouped. Then select the text tool and > select all. This should select all the text items. Cut this. Then > select all again, press the delete key to remove everything that is > left (DON'T USE CUT). Now paste back the text. This leaves you with > just the text. > You can open the PICT from Interleaf and the text is immediately editable inside the graphic. You can cut it or export it as rtf or whatever. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick L. Harvey | Home: romed!harvs!harv@asuvax.eas.asu.edu VLSI Technology, Inc. | Work: vlsisj!phx!harv@decwrl.dec.com (602) 752-6151 |