Extracting text from .png images

[Lukas Ccenovsky]

Henrik Berg Nielsen wrote:
> Hi group!
> 
> I need to extract some text (well numbers actually) from a bunch of
> similarly looking .png images. After extraction the numbers will be fed to a
> Python script for further processing. Any good ideas on how to go about with
> this? I have no idea whatsoever about how to extract the numbers out of the
> images...

Hi,
I'm dealing with similar problem now. My pictures are very complicated
(construction drawings). I am trying to use gamera
(http://dkc.jhu.edu/gamera/) for OCR and it seems very promising.

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-- Lukas