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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Willie Wong wrote:
>
> 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
>   

I'm somewhat clueless about this software issue but wonder about this 
way of seeing things.  Since it appears there is a signature, as in what 
is at the bottom of a letter or a bank check, wouldn't they want to make 
it so that is not able to be extracted at all?  If I had a digital 
signature, I wouldn't want to put it somewhere that it could be used by 
someone that I wouldn't want it to be used by.

I'm not saying you would do this, because I don't think you would, but 
if you could grab that image, then someone who did have bad intentions 
could do the same thing.  This would not be good.  My reason for 
mentioning this, it may be done in such a way that is intended to 
prevent you from doing what you want to do.  Therefore, it may not be 
"doable" by design.

Just a thought.

Dale

:-)  :-)