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Extracting Text from an Image (OCR)

Asked by Bumbles W

Background:
From: https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/171350
look docs: http://sikuli.org/docx/region.html#extracting-text-from-a-region (and bug 710586)
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I tried finding the linked document - but it looks like the link has broken.

Are there any walkthrough's for how to use a text-grabbing-from-region?
For example, if on google's front page, if I wanted to obtain the words "I'm Feeling Lucky" and then paste them into an excel - how would I do that?
I can use the find function to obtain a region (for example get a screengrab of the I'mFeelingLucky button), but I'm not sure how to obtain the text out of the image.

Final note - I know that there are some OCR issues, etc. But I don't know how to do the simple task of pulling out the text out of the region - I've read through all the documentation on the "everything about Sikuli script" page in regard to regions & text but I couldn't seem to figure it out on my own (with no background in programming).

Also, I have a question in regard to pulling in public scripts, etc. but I will log another question.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

the docs have moved:
http://doc.sikuli.org/ (as such replacing http://sikuli.org/docx/ in the above broken link)

if you want more help, you should paste here, what you already have scripted.

What version are you using?

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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 image.

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