vishwamitra has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i have got large amount of jpeg/jpg files which are scanned pages consisting of text. i want to convert them to odt(openoffice writer files) files. Is there any module to do the conversion?I am new to this concept of conversion. Can any one help me please?

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Re: jpeg file to doc or odt conversion
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 18, 2009 at 06:24 UTC
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Re: jpeg file to doc or odt conversion
by mandog (Curate) on Jul 18, 2009 at 22:04 UTC

    Depending on what you want to do with the .jpeg files, (maybe you just want to print them?), you can quickly create an hmtl document w/ bash. 

    echo "<head> </head><body>" > index.html

ls *.jpeg *.jpg | xargs -i echo "<img src={} width=300>" >> index.html

echo "</body>" >> index.html

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    The width= attribute scales the images to something that would reasonablely to fit on a page. Omitting the height attribute means you scale w/o distortion.

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