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 1NKFRs-0002Fe-DS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:15:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13756E0BE8 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:15:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95AB4E0648 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so2675437yxe.32 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:25:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2uqs8apXZa0jYpiy1QTnPCWxImcojAnTguVtmYMILtY=; b=gZAPqN6XWKCGqiBhxRS68rDCmM3DLORtqVFwhhQj90WLa7pyWa6ICN4HYzTDH9j9qc RS/GhiQXFlxGdviJxYt7670llwvhlbHgW01PQDAdsxKZuBFbQ669G8MJRVi6KQm53ILJ zGrapMsElNk1ZbFbCG73p2/iMlU7/Xbzl64hw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vLo2ZXNu2XKrTw6z2N1Wg2AsmNMfsXGyd6cItQxTxC1Fy4oT98BNkhjxzzhggHq9mb hIawQWTDZEsB95ziZFGSDPbvgJVdzql08MGdirTPZg1hkny6lUz9usw6WxDg068Qx+hO VCbxsP2rOYr4LNh+mzl9FWCF16w3TYA+CAF+w= Received: by 10.150.47.16 with SMTP id u16mr7502851ybu.149.1260807955305; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:25:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-91-104.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.91.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm1922411yxe.18.2009.12.14.08.25.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:25:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B26670F.2020200@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:25:51 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091201 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file? References: <19C9F1BB-65F4-4D4C-8506-160A471F1625@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4B2501AD.7000008@darkmetatron.de> <155E655C-2B23-4BF3-ACD9-F186A5C3D965@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20091214151823.GC21815@princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20091214151823.GC21815@princeton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8fb21f35-1597-40fe-94f6-f6f42404a034 X-Archives-Hash: 9134b4275961ced89ee3308d9b2e662b 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 :-) :-)