[sane-devel] How can I view *.pnm saved files??

Wolfram Heider wolframheider at web.de
Mon Jul 31 19:55:00 UTC 2006


On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:18:50 +0200, William Case <billlinux at rogers.com>  
wrote:

> Thanks Russbucket;
>
> Never dawned on me I would need a separate program.
>
> On Sun, 2006-30-07 at 15:34 -0700, Russbucket wrote:
>
>> have you looked at XnView. There is a Linux version and a windows  
>> version. It
>> can open .pnm files and it free for download. Windows version is a  
>> little
>> better than linux version. I've used both and now use the Linux version  
>> a
>> lot. You can open a .pnm  and save it as something else. Not sure how  
>> much
>> you can do to them.
>>
>>   http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadlinux.html
>>
> Don't want to do much -- just run the OCR (gocr).  Saved the *.pnm then
> had to go do something else.  Just wanted to pick up where I left off by
> running the OCR without rescanning all the bits and pieces.
>
> Will check out xnview now.
>


GIMP, GQview, Gwenview and Konqueror (at least in a current KDE-version)  
will do it as well. Nevertheless XnView is a very good choice for not so  
common formats, especially when converting in batch-mode.

-- 
Wolfram Heider



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