Hi Martin, If I were you I would use Python, since it is a very straight-forward language to learn. As a computer scientist I appreciate C, Perl, PHP, etc. but Python makes it really easy to write good programs quickly and easily. Here is a wrapper for tesseract in Python (the page includes an example program):
http://code.google.com/p/python-tesseract/ I would say you can use Selenium webdriver to send the request and get the image. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium/ Good luck! You can come back here or to Stackoverflow.com for further help. -_Sven On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Martin Carlsson <hypertermi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I'm an economist who just recently has taken up programming since I now need > to work with massive amounts of data. > > One of the sources of data is a (terrible) program where I can only look up > one row at the time, it gives me the data as a picture and doesn't allow for > any API. > > I can automate the look up with AutoHotKey _ > but I can't go from picture to text. > > How to I incorporate tesseract-ocr in another program? > > Right now I know VBA, php and AutoHotKey, but I'm willing to learn just > about any language for this to work. > > > My question is: > Where do I start using tesseract-ocr? > How do I incorporate it in a program I have written? > Is there a "Hello World" tutorial? > > > If tesseract-ocr is not the right program for me, It would be great if you > would point me in the right direction. > > > Thanks in advance > Martin Carlsson > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. > To post to this group, send email to tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en -- ``All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. >From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.” -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en
