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shagger1

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Open Image as Text?
« on: December 08, 2005, 06:07 PM »
What is this suposed to do? I tried opening a jpeg but it shows nothing and if I save it it is blank-should this open an image and save it in text??

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Re: Open Image as Text?
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2005, 06:50 PM »
i'll explain.

when Unicode Image Maker itself creates an image file, it stores the original text in the image.
so if you open an image file it has made previously (or if you drag and drop the image into the program),
it should be able to recover the original text.

but the function has no effect unless the image itself was created with Unicode Image Maker.

does that make sense?

shagger1

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Re: Open Image as Text?
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2005, 02:16 AM »
Makes perfect sense - I just thought it would convert a picture to text is all,
thanks

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Re: Open Image as Text?
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2008, 10:34 AM »
can I use the image which is created in unicode to send as sms messages in old mobile phones which cannot handle graphics

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Re: Open Image as Text?
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2008, 01:56 PM »
Makes perfect sense - I just thought it would convert a picture to text is all,
thanks

probably a couple of years too late for shagger :)
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Re: Open Image as Text?
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2008, 06:57 AM »
oh, I thought this program can convert images to texts file! So, I was wrong!  :tellme: :o :down:

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Re: Open Image as Text?
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2008, 07:05 AM »
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oh, I thought this program can convert images to texts file! So, I was wrong!

There are some very good programs that do that (Tomos in the post above you lists one).

Unicode Image Maker is a more unusual program which is designed to make a graphic image that looks like a unicode text string formatted exactly the way you want it to be -- it's useful if you want to display some non-english text in a program or on a web page by using an image.

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Re: Open Image as Text?
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2009, 04:12 AM »
so...it doesnt let images turn into text :|
bleh. darn it..

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