[Image-SIG] how extract/read text from image files

[Edward Cannon]

extracting text from images falls into the optical character
recognition problem, which is not simple. AFIK PIL doesn't support
that feature, try looking for specialized OCR libraries.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:40 AM, <python at bdurham.com> wrote:
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> Arun,
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> Have you checked out PIL (Python Imaging Library)?
> http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
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> Malcolm
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