From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKDVD-0002Dc-FJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:10:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77E94E0B71 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAFD8E08D3 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:14:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16] helo=sep.dynalias.net) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NKCdC-0000en-M2 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:14:39 -0500 Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2F2DE64B02A; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:18:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:18:23 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file? Message-ID: <20091214151823.GC21815@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <19C9F1BB-65F4-4D4C-8506-160A471F1625@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4B2501AD.7000008@darkmetatron.de> <155E655C-2B23-4BF3-ACD9-F186A5C3D965@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 3496e2c2-9c00-4f3d-8d40-e7f2253bb641 X-Archives-Hash: 06df015138be6673fd0f3f2715d081dd On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:06:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: > On 12/14/09, Stroller 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 -- A cliche is a cliche is a cliche is a cliche is a cliche is a cliche. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1102 days, 14:07