extracting text from images?

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Saturday, 24-Oct-2015 8:31:41

So I got an email from someone in the student affairs office at school notifying me of an upcoming Halloween dance, and it contains an attachment with the details of the event. all VoiceOver says is image, and interacting with the downloaded attachment doesn't tell me anything. Is there any way I can get the image out of the text with any screen-reading or scanning technology at all? Pointers welcome. thanks

Post 2 by forereel (Just posting.) on Saturday, 24-Oct-2015 10:48:28

Not really. It depend on how the text was created.

Post 3 by Dave_H (the boringest guy you'll ever know) on Saturday, 24-Oct-2015 14:46:27

I've extracted some text from images using tesseract ocr. Sometimes there are weird extra characters; maybe the ocr engine is trying to make text where there is none? Not perfect, but better than nothing. I hope it's available for Mac.

Post 4 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Saturday, 24-Oct-2015 17:09:44

You can sometimes extract from images using Kurzweil 1000.

I don't think they have anything for the mac.

Bob

Post 5 by Scarlett (move over school!) on Saturday, 24-Oct-2015 22:56:20

You will need to OCR it. I use KNFB reader on the phone, and abbyyfine on the pc.

Post 6 by sia fan bp (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Wednesday, 28-Oct-2015 17:49:01

is knfb free or no? I really need it in case a pdf has a graph or something.

Post 7 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Wednesday, 28-Oct-2015 23:03:06

I think there may be a free trial of KNFB reader, but i'm not sure.

Post 8 by sia fan bp (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Thursday, 29-Oct-2015 11:02:55

I'll check.