Extracting text from .png images

[Bengt Richter]

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 20:25:45 -0700, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

>"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.
Sounds interesting as a problem, but I wouldn't want to create a skeleton key
for any bad guys ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter