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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP1
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01057304
Message ID:
01057343
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>>I have downloaded from the internet png images that consist of 4 lines of typed text.
>>Is there a way to convert them automatically to Text files in VFP?

>
>Probably OCR is the only way as Al Doman said.
>
>This is good. If it was easy to convert graphics to text then it would defeat the anti-spam feature in Blog's comments where you are asked to type what you see, as bots cannot do. The text is usually a random string in weird fonts and shapes to defeat OCR.

So-called "captchas" are not as good as you may think: http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/
Regards. Al

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