* Jenda Krynicky <Jenda@[...].cz>  [2008:06:23:02:26:17+0200] scribed:
>  Date sent:	Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:41:27 -0500
>  From:	Mike Schleif <mds@[...].org>
>  To:	perl-win32-users mailing list <perl-win32-
>  users@[...].com>
>  Subject:	module to convert text to tiff ???
>  
>  > I'm searching cpan; but, I do not find what we need.
>  > 
>  > We want to convert text documents to tiff format.
>  > 
>  > What do you think?
>  
>  Convert text documents to an image? Erm? What kind of documents? What 
>  do you mean by the conversion? If you wanted to convert between 
>  different image formats it would be clear, but what does it mean to 
>  convert a text document to an image?

This project is part of a large workflow process.


There is a document management software that OCR's incoming documents.

We take the OCR'd plain text, parse it into a fields/values hash,
compare sku's/prices to a database, rearrange the fields/values into a
normalized format, and pass a tif image of the resulting document back
to the document management software for search/archival purposes.


cpan lists many modules for converting graphics formats to tiff.

Google shows several proprietary/pay binary text to tiff conversion
tools.


I am hoping to do this entirely in Perl.

What do you think?

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