Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

[Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:06:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked:
> On 12/14/09, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> > It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have
> > predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no file extension.
> >
> > Running `file` on it shows it to be a "Microsoft Office Document", but
> > it's apparently not the kind you can open in Word.
> >
> > I suspect this is going to prove a dead loss. Thanks for your help,
> > though.
> 
> Throwing a wild guess here. Could it be a MODI object?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODI
> 
> Then you have entered captive markets, might be hard to do much
> without software from MS.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the original object a image of a
signature? If they used MODI (whose point I thought was so that you
have OCR on the scanned document) for an illegible scrawl, I think
this should be nominated for the DailyWTF....

Cheers, 

W
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