i have too many drawing files that all has text in lines format or dropped text. How can i repair make it text again ? is there any way i have bentley Descartes v8i series 5 version. Please can someone help me with this
Hi,
King Khan said: How can i repair make it text again ?
as mentioned already, there is no simple straightforward way, because dropped texts are converted into inconsistent geometry only.
King Khan said:is there any way i have bentley Descartes v8i series 5 version.
When you have Bentley Descartes available, you can try (at least to evaluate a complexity of the workflow) to use its OCR functionality:
Descartes, if I remember right, offers something like Convert text tool, allowing to convert text-like raster to text elements. It depends on file structure, but you can try to print only "text geometry" raster file(s), so the result is what should be vectorized only, and to attach them back as raster to be processed by this tool.
What I am not sure (I have no Descartes available now) is how complex is to print everything to raster, because "print to raster" feature is limited in MicroStation (only small resolution is supported). A workaround, that should be tested, is to print the design file (again, the texts only) to PDF and try to use it as input file in Descartes. Descartes should support PDF as input. You can try both normal and rasterized PDFs and to check the results.
With regards,
Jan
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I tried making it pdf and attaching as raster but it doesn't work properly.
I was looking like an option like as available in AutoCAD as we can select text and with option recognize option we can rebuilt text.
King Khan said:I tried making it pdf and attaching as raster but it doesn't work properly.
unfortunately, when you are not willing to share enough information, it's impossible to help you. As MaryB mentioned already, it's not clear what you tried and why it does not work for you.
King Khan said:I was looking like an option like as available in AutoCAD
No such information is in your original question. I agree with Rod Wing, when used right, OCR tool in Descartes produce acceptable result.
King Khan said:as we can select text and with option recognize option we can rebuilt text.
As mentioned in the discussion already, no such tool exist in MicroStation. An option is to export the drawing to another software (e.g. OCR), but my experience with handling text from external sources is not good. It's often hard to achieve required results because of fonts, size, justification, level etc. and manual check and modification of every text may be required ... and in such case, it's simpler (even for hundreds of drawings) to re-create texts manually in MicroStation.
It still sounds from description that it works with raster and not lines - knowledge.autodesk.com/.../GUID-4C9085D9-4001-42A6-A877-567BB9908EE4-htm.html
edit: Looks like this command is used for lines from PDF - PDFSHXTEXT
All hopes that adding PDF as vector attachments such tool will be needed in Microstation also. Seems it is standard issue dealing with PDFs. Another example.