Re: [png-list] Request for a hi-speed bitmap compression format standard
Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:35:17 -0400
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At 08:15 AM 8/13/03 -0700, [email protected] wrote: >Maybe I'm missing the point, but is it really not possible, to use OCR >to transform these bitmaps into simple ASCII strings? They already have the simple strings (with formatting data) so they wouldn't need to OCR. The question is how to convey the strings+formatting efficiently as an overlay on an image (or on a stream of images). As I said before, I think SVG can do that. Glenn http://usf.corecodec.org