Re: png files

Thanks, it does. I have tesseract though I haven't yet had occassion to use it until now. On Sat, 14 Oct 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:16:57 From: Linux for blind general discussion To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re:

Re: png files

What you're looking for is Ocular Character Recognition, OCR for short, software. The two available for Linux I know of are Tesseract and Cuneiform. I haven't much experience with Tesseract, but its been a while since I used Cuneiform and if I remember correctly, Cuneiform produced gibberish about

Re: png files

Hi! On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:41:04 -0400 Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Has Linux any tools to extract text from png files? > Read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition or "OCR" for short. PNG may have some meta-data too. --