Reading Text from image

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Re: Reading Text from image by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 06, 2009 at 14:27 UTC
There is Image::OCR::Tesseract for Tesseract. Martin	[reply]
Re^2: Reading Text from image by venkatesan_G02 (Sexton) on Oct 06, 2009 at 15:01 UTC
Thanks for pointing out to a particular module. But i am not able to install this module both via cpan and nmake. Is there any special means to install it?	[reply]
Re^3: Reading Text from image by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 06, 2009 at 15:04 UTC
Maybe the README file has some hints for you? `Image::OCR::Tesseract ===================== You will need tesseract and ImageMagick installed on your system. This package runs on Unix/Linux type OS. The Makefile.PL will check that you have tesseract installed. SEE ALSO INSTALL.tesseract INSTALL.imagemagick INSTALL`	[reply]
Re^3: Reading Text from image by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2009 at 23:38 UTC
http://kobesearch.cpan.org/dist/Image-OCR-Tesseract says it is available from trouchelle PPM repository	[reply]
Re: Reading Text from image by Joost (Canon) on Oct 06, 2009 at 14:22 UTC
There are some OCR modules on CPAN. Haven't used any of them, though. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: Reading Text from image by hangon (Deacon) on Oct 06, 2009 at 17:43 UTC
If your text is not in the displayed image, but embedded in the file, OCR will not help you. In this case look at Image::ExifTool.	[reply]