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Read text from image file in Java [duplicate]

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What is the best open source Java library that I can use to extract text from an image (JPEG, PNG) files?

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cometta Avatar asked Sep 18 '09 04:09

cometta


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There's GOCR and tesseract, but I'm not sure about how their current releases stack up -- what about trying both on some typical inputs you need to deal with, and choose by this trial?

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Alex Martelli Avatar answered Oct 02 '22 09:10

Alex Martelli