its called OCR, simply install tesseract program and use system to call it

system qw[ tesseract.exe foo.png foo.txt ];
my $text = read_file('foo.txt');
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You may need to preprocess the images to help Tesseract, say using ImageMagick like:

system qw[ convert.exe -resize 200%   image.jpg foo.png ];
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