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recognize and edit text from imported bit map

Asked by Eric Christian

I saved a histogram graph created with 'R' as a bit map, I've imported it into Inkscape and now I want Inkscape to recognize characters, like the title and axis labels as text, so that I can edit the text. I'd be happy to drag my mouse across what I recognize as the x-axis labels of the imported image and then be able to change font, size, color, etc. Is something like this possible?

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mahfiaz (mahfiaz) said : 		#1

What you want is OCR (optical character recognition). Inkscape does not do that and I am pretty sure it never will. Google for a suitable program yourself.

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JonyGreen (jonygreen) said : 		#2

You can try this free online ocr http://www.online-code.net/ocr.html to extract text from bitmap image.

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