Can anyone post me a solution for converting gif containing text to a .txt

Question

Can anyone post me a solution for converting gif containing text to a .txt file using Java

Answer 1

wow!!!
not gonna put a full solution (since its huge!!!)
but heres how you would do it
open the gif in a bufferd image, then do some image recognition on it
easy (hehe) case is if the gif only contains text (black on white of a standard font)
then i would scan down the image until i find a raster line that isnt all white (top of a text line), then find the next raster line that is all white (bottom of text line.
half(ish) way between these lines scan from the left until you find a black pixel (start <maybe> of next character) (be careful you dont aim for the gap in "i"
from that point (x, y) test a set of pixels (x+n1, y+m1) to (x+nt, x+mt) where t should only have to be ~8 or 10 such that for each character in the font these test points return a unique combination, you then know what character is next, add it to a string and repeat along the line, then down the page
tahh dahh there ya go
you can write a program to learn the required test points by giving it a line of the full character set
good piggin luck is what i say :-)