Image to text Conversion

[vbcoder2]

Hi Friends ..........

i need to convert image file to text............

e.g i have driving liscence . i scan it and save it as a image and then from that image i get the values and insert them in a database in their respective fields............
really have no idea rite now that how to do this...........

[Pino]

Hi Friends ..........

i need to convert image file to text............

e.g i have driving liscence . i scan it and save it as a image and then from that image i get the values and insert them in a database in their respective fields............
really have no idea rite now that how to do this...........

You want to take the deatils off the driving licence? name address etc?

if so it would be a near impossible task......

[mudfish]

You would have to save all the images.

[Megatron]

Look into OCR techniques

[Pino]

Look into OCR techniques

or maybe i'm wrong? wouldn it be an easy task to do?

[mudfish]

I have heard PDF had something like this, never seen it work!
It was the sales men trying to push the new PDF system.

[Megatron]

There are pre-written drivers for OCR as mudfish was saying, so to implement them would be trivial. Writing your own driver from scratch, though, would be cumbersome to say the least.

[dglienna]

It would be pretty hard to get meaningful info, as the license is not easy to convert. Does it have a barcode on the back? If so, then this would probably be the best way to get the info. Not sure of the format, though.