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Hey guys is it possible to read text from an image, like how you go to submit a form and it ask you to fill in the text inside image. I want to know if it is possible to read the text inside it. If so, what language?

David Biga

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I am not trying to read captcha I was just giving an example of an image with text in it.

David Biga
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It is possible to read text with Optical Character Recognition.

However, CAPTCHAs are designed to thwart this, in order to distinguish humans from computers.

Andy Thomas
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    Not a captcha but from an image...I was just trying to give an example – David Biga Apr 01 '13 at 22:48
  • Andy is there any code sources on this? – David Biga Apr 01 '13 at 22:50
  • Here's a previous question covering simple OCR without CAPTCHAs -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1813881/java-ocr-implementation. It's the first result when googling "Java OCR libraries", once you know the OCR acronym. – Andy Thomas Apr 01 '13 at 22:53