On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 12:21 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Tim, but I feel that I was not clear enough. Attached is a > tiny jpg file: how to extract, as text, > > ksnapshot & Ah, optical character recognition (OCR). There are some tools for that, but I've not tried any on Linux. I've yeard the name "Tesseract" bandied about, but now you know the term to search for you might find what you want more easily. You need a good resolution original for OCR to work. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.