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imagetextocr
TopCoder
TopCoder

Reputation: 4296

extract text from images programmatically

I am looking for a programmatic way to retrieve text on the images . I am not aware of any such tool if available already. I need to download the images first and then extract text from them . Is there any programmatic way to do so ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4950

Answers (2)

Meria
Meria

Reputation: 31

OCR is a complex technology (image segmentation, angle correction, binarization, characters segmentation, analysis of combined and broken characters, dictionary checking, etc), but there are ready-to-use OCR engines, most of them are commercial, for instance:

  • Most accurate (and expensive + royalty) - Abby OCR engine.
  • Good accuracy (royalty) - OmniPage OCR engine.
  • Good accuracy (royalty-free) - Nicomsoft CrystalOCR engine.
  • Acceptable accuracy (free) - Tesseract OCR engine.

Upvotes: 3

Blender
Blender

Reputation: 298552

Tesseract OCR can extract text from images. What exactly do you mean by extract?

Upvotes: 2

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