g3 files

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:56:58 +0100

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Hi,

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 01:43:03PM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote:
> I'm sorry I have to ask this here but I've checked the archives and have
> found nothing.  I have a multipage g3 fax and would like to convert it to
> something usable like a .fax, .tif, or .pcx file which I can pull into an
> OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program and get it to translate it.
> g32pbm seems to convert to pbm file but I've never heard of them and I
> don't think Windows has either.  If there's a way to convert to .fax,
> .tif, .pcx, .bmp, or any other format I can play with, could someone point
> me in the right direction?  Thanks allot.

This question has been asked on the list just one week ago.

You could use Hylafax' fax2tif, or "g32pbm | pnmtotiff".  The mgetty docs
tell you what this "pbm" stuff is, and where to find the conversion
tools.

gert
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