Converter from jpg to text

[Paul Smith]

On 6/3/07, Steve Searle <steve at stevesearle.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, Tim, but I feel that I was not clear enough. Attached is a
> > tiny jpg file: how to extract, as text,
>
> I assume that OCR software would do it.  But I haven't used any for
> years, not since playing around with whatever Windows software came with
> my first scanner.
>
> Maybe one of these: http://directory.fsf.org/search/fsd-search.py?q=ocr

Thanks to all. I have meanwhile used gocr, which works perfectly with
the tiny example that I have posted. However, it does not work very
fine with other examples. Is there some way of improving the
resolution of a low-resolution picture in order to have gocr working
better?

Paul