software to recognise and extract text from images

Scruff

i'm doing an online ejb\jboss tutorial atm that is pretty good but a bit frustrating.
As well as a step by step guide they provide you with code snippets to insert but the problem is that these code snippets are in an image format and not text!!
So what you have to do is manually type everything out and constantly flick back and forth between the webpage and IDE, or have them half and half on the screen.

So i was wondering...is there any software out there that can look at an image and extract the text out of it?
I know that ye can do it in photoshop etc no bother ifs a layered image that has text layers in it but here ye'd be dealing with a flat file: bmp, png, jpeg etc.
example of the kind of image here .
As ye can see there is nothing but text in the image so its a relatively simple image.

anywho, was just wondering. will probably be finished typing by the time i find out but shure i'm curious anyway:)

Stephen

There is OCR (optical character recognition) software out there but its generally fairly crap, especially for something like programming where syntax is important.

Serbian

Also, if those red dots are part of the original image, whereas we can easily tell what letter it is supposed to be, a program may not easily recognise those letters that are partially obscured by the dots.

OCR is probably your only hope. For printed text is fairly decent, and you may have to edit only small portions of what it reads in.

oneweb

try http://www.omniformat.com/ I didn't think it was great, but you may have better results. One of the very few that I found despite a lot of searching.