From: Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net>
To: "Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: piping html inline images through filter
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:47:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mhty8md.fsf@enricoschumann.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1wio76u.fsf@roche-blanche.net> ("Peter \=\?utf-8\?Q\?M\=C3\=BCn\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?ster\=22's\?\= message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:16:25 +0200")
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> writes:
> Hi,
>
> How would it be possible to pipe html inline images through a filter
> program please?
>
> Use case: some people often send me messages with inline images that are
> screenshots (GIF images with mostly text). When replying, I would like
> to quote the text of the images.
>
> Idea:
> - display article in html mode
> - call a washing function, that pipes all images through a filter
> (OCR program, that converts images to text)
> - then reply to the message and have all inline images quoted as text
>
> How could I make such a washing function please? Or do you have better
> ideas?
>
> TIA for any help,
For processing specific parts of the email you could first save the
interesting parts to some tmp-directory (for instance with
'gnus-summary-save-parts'). Then run a 'shell-command' that does all the
computations on the image(s), the output of which you insert into your
reply.
--
Enrico Schumann
Lucerne, Switzerland
http://enricoschumann.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-14 11:47 UTC|newest]
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2015-10-13 20:16 Peter Münster
2015-10-14 11:47 ` Enrico Schumann [this message]
2015-10-14 17:42 ` Peter Münster
2015-10-15 14:26 ` Enrico Schumann
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