I need to read text from gif/jpeg that have a combination of text and images. The hope is that all the gifs are in a standard format for me to use regex (maybe?) to get text out of an image.
Any input on this is really appreciated.
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A:
This is called Optical Character Recognition (OCR). There are a few libraries referenced in this question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/744966/any-open-source-c-ocr-library
Anderson Imes
2009-10-30 19:12:46
The other OP has not mentioned which C# library worked for him/her. Can I assume that we need to write a wrapper for the only in the Google code library. Are there other free ones out there?
2009-10-30 22:22:46
There's a LOT of help about getting the wrapper working in that post and links to other posts. It will take you 30 minutes, max, trust me. Here's the link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/744966/any-open-source-c-ocr-library/744978#744978
Anderson Imes
2009-10-30 22:39:37
My understanding is that there are a lot of really crappy ones out there and a LOT of others that are extremely expensive. This one happens to be awesome and free. It'll be worth the 30 minutes learning how to use DLLImport, trust me.
Anderson Imes
2009-10-30 22:43:05