>> Is there an existing package for python that will perform simple letter >> recognition from image files? I'm specifically looking for a way to >> read from a png file, but that can be changed. >> > "simple letter recognition from image file" now there's an oxymoron. > > I've successfully used ExperVision's RTK OCR toolkit for Windows > from Python. Actually by using ctypes you should be able to call > any of the many OCR engines that are available. Alas, all that I > found that were really good were not free (but I haven't looked in > well over a year). > Might look at these:
http://directory.fsf.org/claraocr.html http://directory.fsf.org/ocrad.html -- Michael McGlothlin, tech monkey Tub Monkey http://www.tubmonkey.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
