OCR(Optical Character Reading)

Hello,
I need some help in writing a program which will read handwriting/text in images(like jpg,gif,bmp,tif etc).
Is there any away to use java in this area?
Is there any existing OCR implementation in java?
Pls let me know
thanks in advance..
Sudheer Reddy

Any free options?
The best I could find was and API that uses a comand-line based OCR tool to do the job...

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Dear Sirs,
My printer HP 4507 cannot scan in OCR mode even though I choose the option (HP ENVY 4500 series software and HP 4507 printer) "Document to File" (PDF), output type:Black&White, resolution:200 dpi, Item Type: Document, File Type: PDF.
After scanning process, at the end, even in PDF File type the character are scanned as image only not in the text mode. In another words, I cannot copy the text from PDF file to MS Word processor.
If I am to acquire OCR software first to perform scanning in text mode, where can I obtain this OCR software for HP 4507 printer?
Microsoft Office Document Scanning application cannot recognize or find the HP 4507 Scanner when it was supposed to.
In this matter, a support would be much appreaciated.
With regards,
rakam

Hello rakam,
The HP Envy 4500 model does not support any OCR functionality withn the HP Software, for that you wlill need any 3rd party software which support a such.
You may use any 3rd part OCR solution to scan as editable text.
If you have Microsoft Office suite there is a good chance the office suite provide this kind of capabilities:
Office 2007 or 2010:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14595/ocr-anything-with-onenote-2007-and-2010/
Office 2003:
http://agsci.psu.edu/it/how-to/perform-ocr-with-microsoft-office-2003-document-imaging
As I understand you experience issues with the solutions above, that may happen due to non-working Windows Services.
Follow these steps which might be applicable for a such, as well ensure the Windows Service as described within Solution 3:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03586087/
For any issues, let me know what connection type you use, as well disable any firewall software is used and try again.
Regards,
Shlomi
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OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

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Optical character recognition--how do I scan a document to text I can edit?

You first scan the document to a PDF. Then you run OCR from within Acrobat. Depending on your setup, the OCR may be run automatically.
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Feature not available. Not surprising, considering the difference in price between Adobe Indesign and Pages.
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