image recogniton?

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Tue Jan 6 10:53:55 EST 2009


    Furkan> start with Python Image Library:
    Furkan> http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

Well, there's the little problem of optical character recognition.  You
might want to check out open source OCR tools like gocr:

    http://jocr.sourceforge.net/

Just use PIL to convert input images into PNM format, run gocr in a
subprocess read the stdout to get text.

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