Searching for text in images

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
I have a large map which looks something like this -
http://www.housing.lon.ac.uk/site7/images/londinium.gif
the problem though is that it's much bigger than this. So, I was wondering if there are any Perl modules which would allow me to scan an image like the one above and locate the text in it. For example, "12" found at coorinate 14,55; "13" at coordinate 51,9; etc. I have a large array of data which I'd like to represent on the map for the cooresponding sectors.
Doing this by hand will take ages and result in errors I imagine.
Thanks.

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Re: Searching for text in images by Solo (Deacon) on Aug 29, 2004 at 22:33 UTC
One of the OCR projects on Freshmeat might have what you're looking for. --Solo -- You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake; well, this could be it, sweetheart.	[reply]