On Saturday 19 Feb 2005 22:33, Mercury Morris wrote: > I took a screen snapshot (ksnapshot) of a terminal window > with some text in it. I wasn't able to get the text to be copied > to the clipboard for pasting into an editor window. > > Now, I have a record of the text, in an image, and I can go back > and review it for testing/debugging/etc. > > My question: How do I NOW get the text from the image? > It's a .jpg (snapshot2.jpg). I tried GIMP, but the learning > curve is way too long and steep. What is a way to get the > text out of the image file? > > Thanks for any short, simple solution you might know. > > -- > MM Can you repeat the command you are trying to get the result from? If so, go and take a look at the redirection options in bash or whatever shell you are running. Output from a command (either standard output, or standard error) can be redirected to a file. In most cases if all you want is the standard output from a command logged into a file then #command > file.name will work for you. If you want both the standard output and the error output from a command #command 2>&1 > file.name should work. Note that by default the noclobber variable in the shell is set, so the redirection symbol > will not overwrite a file that exists already. Either delete the file first, or append the new data to the end of the file by using the >> symbol instead. YMMV If you cannot repeat the command, then the only option to convert the image text to a pure text file is to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs. Thats not my field I'm afriad, but google might help you out there. A quick search found this site : http://www.linux-ocr.ekitap.gen.tr/en/ It would appear that most of the software needs a .pbm file to work with, but conversion from jpeg to pbm is pretty simple. HTH -- Tony Dietrich ------------- Martin was probably ripping them off. That's some family, isn't it? Incest, prostitution, fanaticism, software. -- Charles Willeford, "Miami Blues"
