OCR software
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Hi all, I'm looking at adding OCR (Optical Character Recognition) into an application I'm currently developing. I need the following functionality: 1) Handle AVI file format (possibly other movie formats in the future) 2) Allow me to specify where each text field is on the movie frame (a max of 20 text locations need to be handled) So far from searching on the internet I've been unable to find any OCR tools that handle movies so it would seem I'd need to convert every frame to a tif (or other format) and then pass it into the software. And for the second requirement they OCR tools only appear to process the entire image (so like a scanned in text document) rather than certain parts (best way I can think of describing it is like trying to capture the date/time off each frame, so always in the same position). So does anyone have any ideas on how to do this and of any appropriate tools? many thanks, Andy