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This may be easy to do, depending on what kind of MODCA you have. If you
have MODCA that contains just IOCA (i.e., pure image, with no fonts,
graphics, etc), has one object per image and uses smething standard (like
FS10), it should be easy to do. If you are interested, let me know and I'll
explain how to do it - I don't think the details would interest the whole
list.

For general MODCA, this is a non-trivial task, since it involves ripping
the document. While IBM has an AFP viewer that is (I think) freely
downloadable and would do what you need for a few images, I am not aware of
anything covered by GPL that would convert on the scale you are looking
for. IBM Printing Systems has various ways of doing the conversion, but
I'd need to know a bit more about your system and requirements before I
could suggest a reasonable course of action.

Regards,

Nenad Rijavec
IOCA Architect
IBM Printing Systems Division
nenad@us.ibm.com
303-924-6319


"Thomas Ehardt" <tomasso@earthling.net>@olympiakos.com on 07/16/2000
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Does anyone know of any GPL-covered software that can handle the IBM
MODCA/IOCA format?

I have a need to convert hundreds of thousands of images from MODCA to
TIFF.

Thank you,
Thomas Ehardt
tomasso@earthling.net




