From: wyrosdick <ben.wyrosdick@...>
Date: 2007-03-18T06:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: OCR in ruby

On Mar 17, 1:34 am, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> "wyrosdick" <ben.wyrosd...@gmail.com> writes:
> > does anyone know of an OCR library in ruby or one that can be called
> > from command line so I can integrate it with a ruby script?
>
> I don't know of a specific ruby library to do this. However, there is a GNU OCR
> project - you could probably bind to its library and use that? It also has a
> command line utility that can take input from stdin and send text output to
> stdout - possibly you could try using that to see if the genral principal
> works.
>
> Tim
>
> P.S. from memory its called gocr
> --
> tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

that worked beautifully ... I use imagemagick to convert the image to
a pgm file then use `gocr -i file.pgm` to get the ocr text from the
command line tool inside of ruby.

thanks
Ben