Turn Image into Text - Java [duplicate]

Answer 1

You need an OCR (optical character recognizer) library or write your own. Check out this SO question.

Answer 2

Try this character recognition library: http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaocr/

Answer 3

Tess4J, a JNA wrapper around Tesseract engine, supports APIs that take BufferedImage, File, or image data as input, and return String as output.

Answer 4

You need to look into Java OCR implementations. Take a look at this question: Java OCR