On Sun, June 22, 2008 7:23 pm, Mike Schleif wrote:
>  * 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.
> 

You actually need to print your document with a TIFF print driver.  You
can try Ghostscript which has a Postscript driver and then convert to
TIFF.

This URL goes through the process:
http://server3.nethost.co.il/set_tif.html

Ghostscript:
http://www.ghostscript.com/awki

HTH,

Christopher Taranto

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