Java API for JPEG to txt or excel conversion

[Ajay Njallacattu]

Hi All,

I'm trying to findout an API which can help me to convert JPEG to txt or excel conversion. Can anyone help me with this?


Regards

Ajay

[Ulf Dittmer]

Um. How would converting an image to text work? What does the image contain? Not that it really matters, cause it would be an extremely tricky problem.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Ajay,
Maybe look at character recognition software? That would help with the text part. For Excel, I would think it would be next to impossible.

[David Newton]

It wouldn't be *that* difficult, really. Relative to something really, really difficult, anyway.

The OCR part is largely a solved problem. And some of the commercial OCR bits will let you select chunks and drop them into tables--I assume they just identify regions (lines, which is trivial, and columns, which is probably just the same thing with some wiggle room for the unjustified text). If you can get that far, you can turn it into CSV.

[Ajay Njallacattu]

Good to see some replies.. The Jpeg contains some values. This is scanned from a hardcopy. for example a ledger etc.
I need to extract these values to some calculation which will be easy if I convert it into txt,csv etc.

Regards

Ajay