search text in the image (OCR) ?

Discussion in 'Programming' started by varun8211, Sep 26, 2007.

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    Does anyone know if we can search the content (text) of the image ?
    I have bunch of jpeg/gif files of a book. (I converted PDF to image) . I want to search the text in those images.. Can I do that ? Can OCR help?
     
    varun8211, Sep 26, 2007 IP
  2. AstarothSolutions

    AstarothSolutions Peon

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    Yes, OCR will convert the image to its best attempt at text and you can then search that text string for the match. Not sure if you can, or even if it would be more efficient, to not convert the whole image to a string but only search for the search text using the ocr itself
     
    AstarothSolutions, Sep 27, 2007 IP
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    You maybe are looking for a PHP script.
    Maybe PHPOCR will help you : freshmeat.net/projects/phpocr/
     
    digipren, Sep 27, 2007 IP