C# .NET - Read Characters from Picture

To read characters from an image you need to do an OCR (optical character Recognition) .There is no inbuilt function in C#.NET for OCR but you can use Microsoft Office Document Imaging Library (MODI), which is contained in the Office 2003 package .It can be easily integrated into your application.

For more details visit

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/modi.asp

I think you can read through this article to know how you can apply this concept in reading the characters mentioned in an image,

Using Image characters verification to register a user on a web site.

http://www.devasp.net/net/articles/display/654.html

This article is about how you can verify image characters while registering a user to your web site.

This is same as when you make a new account on a mail server like yahoo or hotmail, while you are entering your information you are asked to enter the characters shown in the image. Note that these characters are generated randomly.

Hi Sharmilee,

I saw your post regarding the reding of characters from image.I am also strugling with same issue.Actually,I need to extract integers from an image which is a meter reding.

So did you complete your poject and if so please share me the idea and source code.

Thanks