[Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

[Kevin Cozens]

PoWah Wong wrote:
> How to extract (get or copy) text in a rectangle from a jpg file?
> i.e. the jpg file has a rectangle which has some text (character strings).  How to get those text to a text file?

You need to take a look at some of the OCR programs like Tesseract 
(http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/).

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