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Reading Text from image

by venkatesan_G02 (Sexton)
on Oct 06, 2009 at 14:17 UTC ( [id://799489]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

venkatesan_G02 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All,

I have a image file with some text in it. I need to read the text from that image file. Could anyone suggest some way or module to achieve this?

Thanks

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Re: Reading Text from image
by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 06, 2009 at 14:27 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?

        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
Re: Reading Text from image
by Joost (Canon) on Oct 06, 2009 at 14:22 UTC
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.

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