Pierre,
I'm working on such solution right now. Hit a dead-end with PerlMagick on
Win32, so this weekend I'll start over on Linux. Here's what I found:
Manipulate images (i.e.,crop)
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~addi/perl/Imager/
ImageMagick - cut and manipulate images
http://sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/
Convert Image to OCR-able format (pnm files)
http://hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/topics/linux/man-pages/man1/tifftopnm.1.html
ImageMagick: convert/mogrify - (?)
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~addi/perl/Imager/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/
http://www.megaloman.com/~hany/RPM/doors3.0/jr/netpbm-progs-9.5-6.i386.html
OCR utilities (pnm files)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gocr/
http://lem.eui.upm.es/ocre.html - OCR pnm files
http://web.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/user/jhawk/src/quinefaut-0.5.tgz
Empirical success story:
http://leb.net/blinux/list-archive/blinux-list/2000/msg01702.html
I tried to get ImageMagick-PerlMagick to work with Win32 to no avail
(compiling from source produced fatal errors). I'll instead use Linux, as
that is apparently better supported. (My laptop in WinME and would be most
convenient to test with...I have no love of Win32!)
First, I need to try perl Imager Linux. If that doesn't cut it (no pun
intended) then I'll install ImageMagick and PerlMagick on Linux. Failing
that, I'll move to GIMP with Perl-fu interface.
Second, convert the tiff to pnm and OCR it.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Smolarek [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 2:07 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Idea.. OCR in perl?
>
> Does anyone know if there is either a c app that will take an image and
> ocr
> it ? (Character recognition)
>
> That would be cool as you could develop some nice apps with that in perl.
>
> Pierre
>
