extract numbers from picture?

[tony]

is this called pattern matching or AI in java? how can you extract a number
that is on a jpeg or bmp/gif/tiff ? is there any java package doing this?

thanks

[Chris]

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tony wrote:

is this called pattern matching or AI in java? how can you extract a
number that is on a jpeg or bmp/gif/tiff ? is there any java package
doing this?

thanks

I have no idea how to do it, but I believe the correct term is OCR, or
Optical Character Recognition. There are programs that are designed
to do this with scanned pages of text, but they will also load
images, and they should work just as well for purely numerical input
as for text.

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