[fpc-pascal] Reading text from images

[Marco van de Voort]

> On 12/9/06, Darius Blaszijk <dhkblaszyk at zeelandnet.nl> wrote:
> > This technique is called OCR. No idea if there is a pascal implementation,
> > but it should not be too hard to make one. It's based on neural networks
> > that "learn" to recognize any character from any font.
> 
> Hi,
> There is little use in reinventing the wheel and implement ocr from scratch.
> 
> I think the best way is to use an existing software from fpc ,  for
> example GOCR:
> http://jocr.sourceforge.net/
> 
> GOCR is based on a  shared library,  which means that it shouldn't be
> difficult to
> call the functions from freepascal.

If it is C. If it is C++, it is a different story.