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

[PoWah Wong]

--- On Mon, 3/2/09, PoWah Wong <wong_powah at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> From: PoWah Wong <wong_powah at yahoo.ca>
> Subject: extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file
> To: gimp-user at lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
> Received: Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:07 PM
> 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?
> 
> 
>      
>> 640x512 seems pretty small for something to OCR out. What kind of image is
it?

>> Note that resizing will not have any positive effect on text recognition.

Attached is the image.
It has some text inside some rectangles.


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