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Extracting text from image files

Can anyone point me towards information/.net components that can be used for text
extraction and pattern recognition? In particular, I am interested in working with a
screenshot and extracting text and identifying specific icons on the screenshot.

I believe that Leadtools has some nice libraries but they are expensive. I also don't
need all of the scanning/TWAIN support as my images will already be in raster format.

Any help/pointer would be great. I don't mind an excurion into writing it myself with GDI
if I can find good examples / source code.

Thanks!
Nov 21 '05 #1
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Anyone? Lil' help? Throw a dog a bone?

TIA

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Can anyone point me towards information/.net components that can be used for text
extraction and pattern recognition? In particular, I am interested in working with a
screenshot and extracting text and identifying specific icons on the screenshot.

I believe that Leadtools has some nice libraries but they are expensive. I also don't
need all of the scanning/TWAIN support as my images will already be in raster format.

Any help/pointer would be great. I don't mind an excurion into writing it myself with GDI if I can find good examples / source code.

Thanks!

Nov 21 '05 #2

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