Extracting text from Image

[Carlos Scheidecker Antunes]

Hello all,

Is there any way to extract only text from an image à la OCR?
Say that I have a parts image of a Chevy that has text in form of
description and SKU,
I would like to scan for text and extract it. Is it possible?
Or is there any other library OCR tool that you might suggest?
Preferably in Java.

Thanks,
C.F.

[Lesley Marchant]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlos Scheidecker Antunes" <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:24 PM
Subject: Extracting text from Image


Hi,

Your question:

Is there any way to extract only text from an image à la OCR?
Say that I have a parts image of a Chevy that has text in form of
description and SKU,
I would like to scan for text and extract it. Is it possible?

Yes, unfortunately commercial, try http://www.readiris.com

Or is there any other library OCR tool that you might suggest?

If the text is a type font ie Univers, Times, etc search shareware under
OCR,
2/3 commercial, but cheaper.

Preferably in Java.

Don't know.

Readiris is by FAR the best, they probably still have a 30 day demo.

Regards,

Steve W

[JonyGreen]

You can try this free online ocr to extract text from image free, all the content will retain the original page layout in the converted txt file.