How to read images using Java API?

Question

I have been using a piece of Software that works as a Reading Scanner. Basically it retrieves text from images. Is there any API for Java that would enable programmatically recognize text contained in images, in particular .tiff to regular text? Or is there any Java class that would help ... I do not know how to start

Answer 1

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Answer 2

This type of problem is called Optical Character Recognition or OCR. The first Google result for "Java OCR" looks promising: http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaocr