Re: how extract/read text from image files

Anders Sandvig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.image
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Arun ragini <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to know how to extract/read text from image files. Any
> references/examples will help me to achieve the goal.

You could have a look at PyTesser:

http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/

It depends on PIL to decode images and Google's Tesseract OCR engine
(run as an externl process), but apparently works quite well.


Anders
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