Extracting Text from Image

[Farhan]

Can text be extracted from an image (jpg/bmp/gif etc).

 

[Onsokumaru]

Yes.

You need an OCR program. There are a few free ones around, and your success
will vary but they work well enough.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=f...=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_en___AU250

I did use some a while ago, but can't recall a name, so you will have to
suck it and see.

 

[Maurice]

Can text be extracted from an image (jpg/bmp/gif etc).

there is also "Microsoft Office Document Imaging" that come with Microsoft
Office

Maurice

 

[Big_Al]

Onsokumaru said this on 12/27/2008 12:41 AM:

Yes.

You need an OCR program. There are a few free ones around, and your success
will vary but they work well enough.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=f...=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_en___AU250

I did use some a while ago, but can't recall a name, so you will have to
suck it and see.

You get better luck with OCR if the image is black and white and high
contrast. I've sometimes put photos in Photoshop and turned them to
B&W and adjusted to get good lettering and then scanned that 2nd image.
Especially with old brown paper images.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Can text be extracted from an image (jpg/bmp/gif etc).

Maybe. There is available software of a type called OCR (Optical
Character Recognition). Whether it meets your needs depends not just
on the particular software package, but also on the graphic image, how
good it is, what fonts it uses, etc.