Any program to extract text from images?

[John Latter]

Hi,

Are there any programs which can extract text from images?
(specifically gifs).

Thanks in advance,

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
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[H-Man]

Hi,

Are there any programs which can extract text from images?
(specifically gifs).

You'd probably be looking for an OCR program. AFAIK Simple OCR is the
only freebee out there worth looking at.
http://www.simpleocr.com/
HK

 

[H-Man]

You'd probably be looking for an OCR program. AFAIK Simple OCR is the
only freebee out there worth looking at.
http://www.simpleocr.com/

Forgot to mention, TIFF, BMP and JPEG is supported only, you'll have to
confert your GIF's. As text doesn't reside as anything more than a
collection of pixels in a GIF, the only way to get text out of the image
is to have a program look at the picture and determine if it recognises
anything there as text, that's what OCR does.
HK

 

[John Latter]

Forgot to mention, TIFF, BMP and JPEG is supported only, you'll have to
confert your GIF's. As text doesn't reside as anything more than a
collection of pixels in a GIF, the only way to get text out of the image
is to have a program look at the picture and determine if it recognises
anything there as text, that's what OCR does.
HK

Thanks for the info & link H-man!

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech