Reading Image Contents

[ajay]

Hi,

I want to read the text present in an image (jpg/gif). Does anybody
know about any perl module which serves this purpose?

Thanks,
Ajay

 

[Paul Lalli]

I want to read the text present in an image (jpg/gif). Does anybody
know about any perl module which serves this purpose?

Do you mean that there is an image of some letters, and you want to
find out what those letters are? If so, please see this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...1f789548ccb/7422d9d0fd4ee605#7422d9d0fd4ee605

If not, please better explain what you're trying to do.

Paul Lalli

 

[ajay]

Thanks Paul.

My requirement is on the similar line but not exactly same.

I am working in anti-spam field. Actually i want to read the text
present in the images so that i can stop image spam (Mail which has
only image in it, no test contents) reaching inbox. Is it possible in
anyway to get the exact text (text + urls) present in the mail?

Ajay

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

Thanks Paul.

Please quote an appropriate amount of context when you reply.

I am working in anti-spam field. Actually i want to read the text
present in the images so that i can stop image spam (Mail which has
only image in it, no test contents) reaching inbox. Is it possible in
anyway to get the exact text (text + urls) present in the mail?

You may be able to get some mileage out of scanning software.

http://search.cpan.org/~lennerto/Win32-Scanner-EZTWAIN-0.01/EZTWAIN.pm

Sinan

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[Rick Scott]

My requirement is on the similar line but not exactly same.

I am working in anti-spam field. Actually i want to read the text
present in the images so that i can stop image spam (Mail which has
only image in it, no test contents) reaching inbox. Is it possible in
anyway to get the exact text (text + urls) present in the mail?

Perhaps my experience is markedly different from the average, but
how often do you see mail which contains only images and *isn't* spam?

IMHO, one of the most useful rules you can add to a mail filtering
setup is "kill on HTML", but perhaps that's just my plain-text console
junkie nature making itself heard.




Rick

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

Please quote an appropriate amount of context when you reply.


You may be able to get some mileage out of scanning software.

http://search.cpan.org/~lennerto/Win32-Scanner-EZTWAIN-0.01/EZTWAIN.pm

Sorry, this is an awful answer ... What you need is some kind of OCR
module, not TWAIN.

Sinan

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[axel]

Perhaps my experience is markedly different from the average, but
how often do you see mail which contains only images and *isn't* spam?

Oddly enough I had a case which verged on this a couple of months
ago. I got an email from an organisation with whom I had an
appointment with a rather cryptic, 'please reply to this email if
you receive it'. So I did.

It was only later that I had another look at the email... just as
well as there was an image containing a map of how to get to a
changed address plus the address and details... all in the image
itself... which had to to save in a file and launch an external
program to read... some people are brain-dead.

Axel