OCR on windows

bring1 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone know of something comparable to PDF::OCR2 for Windows? My end objective is to rename pdf files based on a regex match within a scanned document. Any advice? Thanks!

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Re: OCR on windows by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 03, 2012 at 15:56 UTC
This module uses tesseract, among other things. You could use the some of the same underlying tools within a perl script. I don't know of module which supports windows which does it all. Sorry.	[reply]
Re: OCR on windows by Anonymous Monk on Feb 04, 2012 at 00:18 UTC
Image::OCR::Tesseract could work for you if you install tesseract.exe and make sure the `"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick...\convert.exe"` is in the %path% before `%windir%\system32\convert.exe`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: OCR on windows by bring1 (Initiate) on Feb 06, 2012 at 15:21 UTC
Thanks, this actually works quite well.	[reply]
Re: OCR on windows by tobyink (Canon) on Feb 03, 2012 at 22:33 UTC
Ah I remember it well... obsessively defragmenting my hard disk every week. Oh sorry, I thought you were talking about OCD.	[reply]