Extracting text from .png images

[Tim Roberts]

"Henrik Berg Nielsen" <hbn at imada.sdu.dk> wrote:
>
>I need to extract some text (well numbers actually) from a bunch of
>similarly looking .png images. After extraction the numbers will be fed to a
>Python script for further processing. Any good ideas on how to go about with
>this? I have no idea whatsoever about how to extract the numbers out of the
>images...

Are you hoping to extract the "password" characters from the pictures
presented by the whois checks?  If so, you should give up now, because
those images are SPECIFICALLY designed to make them almost impervious to
automated recognition.
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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.