X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,25fb686ac46c0d5d X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-25 04:15:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lios!news.gweep.ca!not-for-mail From: google@inio.org (Ian Rickard) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Re: [DIS] A little history question Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:15:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 17 Sender: robomod@lios.aq2.gweep.ca Approved: rec-arts-ascii-moderator@gweep.ca Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: lios.aq2.gweep.ca 1043496916 14174 127.0.0.1 (25 Jan 2003 12:15:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@lios.aq2.gweep.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:15:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-Date: 25 Jan 2003 04:15:05 -0800 Xref: archiver1.google.com rec.arts.ascii:263 Brian Inglis wrote: > Looks like you might be able to do something like that using a > regular OCR program, matching the character cell detail against a > standard glyph's characteristics, perhaps after training against > samples of a given output character set. Certainly I could, but the important part of my question was who was doing it in 1996 or earlier :). However, since I posted the original article I have come across Gifscii, which does exactly what I wanted, and appeared on the net as early as 1994: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1994Feb16.134427.1%40acad.drake.edu Now I'm wondering if anyone might know of a magazine or other dated published document which might contain a reference to Gifscii from that period (published in or prior to October 1996).