Re: [htdig-dev] Question about .tif files

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Elaine Fortin wrote:

> We want to store faxes and be able to search them with htdig.
...
> In order to be able to search the content, would we have to run them 
> through an OCR program, or is there something else that can translate them?

You'd have to have some sort of OCR in there. 

A fax TIFF file is pure graphic--there's very little text content. (TIFF
files in general can have some useful text info, but I think you're
looking for the text in the fax, not text that the fax program may or may
not store in the TIFF.)

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-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
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