g3 files

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Shane Wegner <shane@cm.nu> writes:
> 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.

What is the format of the input file(s) and what platform are they on?
As this is the mgetty list, I assume you have a bunch of single page
files on a unix machine.  Get libtiff from
  ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/
and compile fax2tiff.  Use it to pack the pages into a .tif file.

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