How do you explain the difference between JPEG and a MS Word file?
Yesterday my mother came to me and asked: "What is the difference between a JPEG and a MS Word file?". At first, I thought this is going to be easy. The difference is quite obvious, isn't it? A JPEG is a picture, while the MS Word file is a text document. So I told her exactly that. What followed next left me speechless.
She asked me how she can convert a JPEG into a MS Word file (the picture she wanted to convert had text in it). In her mind, this file has text in it, so it must be possible to convert it into a text document. Furthermore, you can insert the picture in the MS Word file, so clearly this must be possible. I didn't know what to say. I grew up with computers, so this concept of different file types and in what ways they are interchangeable is normal for me, but how do you explain that to someone who didn't have this luxury?
I have no idea. Have you?
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How do you explain the difference between JPEG and a MS Word file?
Yesterday my mother came to me and asked: "What is the difference between a JPEG and an MS Word file?". At first, I thought this is going to be easy. The difference is quite obvious, isn't it? A JPEG is a picture, while the MS Word file is a text document. So I told her exactly that. What followed next left me speechless.She asked me how she can could convert a JPEG into an MS Word file (the picture she wanted to convert had text in it). In her mind, this file has text in it, so it must be possible to convert it into a text document. Furthermore, you can insert the picture into the MS Word file, so clearly this must be possible. I didn't know what to say. I grew up with computers, so this concept of different file types and in what ways they are interchangeable is normal for me, but how do you explain that to someone who didn't have this luxury?
I have no idea. Have you?
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Computers store things differently and according to the information type. When it comes to text, the computer will save it the way it's written. However, for images, the computer reads colors. Now, MS Word does not have the option of converting the colors patterns into recognized writing. It just takes an image as a set of colors without checking their places. In order to convert from image to text, there are special tools called Optical Character Recognition.
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Your mom has a good point -- it's 2016, and still no decent optical character recognition software!?
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