[Image-SIG] how extract/read text from image files

[Anders Sandvig]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Arun ragini <arunragini at gmail.com> 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