This is not really the sort of task for which Perl is suited - it is a gigantic number crunching task where speed is of the essence, thus a compiled languague is likely to yelid best results. There does not appear to be anything on CPAN that does OCR searcing for OCR and Optical Character Recognition. A websearch for OCR on Google reveals a host of inexpensive OCR applications including engines (not so inexpensive) suitable for embedding in Perl via XS or OLE. Have a look here

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