Re: simple OCR in php

On Friday 29 June 2007 10:32 am, you wrote: > [snip] > I am looking for a way to incorporate some simple OCR into a php script. > The > user will bulk scan a pile of invoices. I want the php script to look at > each > invoice and read a number off the invoice. The image will then be > renamed, > and be organized into a directory and the file name will be added to a > database. (all of these steps are straight forward once the number is > read.) > I have no problem with a system that requires a special OCR font and/or > some > sort of registration mark to help locate the Invoice number. Can anybody > tell > me of any tools out there that can do this? > [/snip] > > In short PHP cannot perform OCR functions. You could insert an OCR > application into the process and have the OCR app pass PHP the > information. Exactly. Are there any third party tools or OCR applications that anybody can recommend? (I suppose you could write an OCR application in PHP, but that sounds like an awful lot of work.) Thanks Ray