As Robbe said you’ll need an OCR engine to do that. There are many samples and tutorials on the internet for using OCR in your applications. I found the following links that I think will help you get started:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/317163/OCR-with-LEADTOOLS-The-Better-Choice
https://gist.github.com/yatt/915443
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10130/OCR-with-Microsoft-Office
Hope this helps