Panasonic Calls It .PBE?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday November 17, 2001 @06:35PM from the converting-it-to-something-readable dept.

TrumpetX asks: "A friend of mine and I have been asked by our boss to do an image extraction from a KV-F510 Panasonic scanning station. The extraction program (which works in a 16 bit environment only) works fine, but it spits out .PBE file formats with some unreadable .INF files. I was wondering if any of the /. readers out there have used one of these dinasour scanning stations before, and if someone could shed some light on how to convert the .PBE files to another format (TIF, GIF, BMP, or anything else readable, really)."

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Re:Help by sydb · 2001-11-17 20:35 · Score: 3, Insightful

overrated? Would someone care to explain that?

The guy's comment is just a link to the front page of the Panasonic support site. The story is looking for information on a file format, PBE. A search for 'pbe' on the site yields no results.

A Google search for KV-F510 yields no results.

Five minutes of searching for pbe gives only irrelevant results.

Thus the problem of proprietary data formats is illustrated.

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Yours Sincerely, Michael.