On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:40, Pat Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > I'm wondering if anyone had come accross a system in perl that can > handle physical documents that are scanned in to a system and OCR them > and put them into a database. I know its a bit much to ask. but I > don't want to reinvent the wheel, if you know what I mean. > > implementing this in perl would be a case of getting the doc's as pictures > adding them to a database, and making them the doc's search able on a > database. > > Well that is the idea :) > > so I am wondering if there is anything out there in CPAN that could > help me, or if anyone has any ideas, would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > Pat
You might want to take a look at this: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
