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Converting image to text for wp7

I am developing apps for wp7 and am new to these things. I want convert an image to text like selecting an  existing image or capture a new image and if there is a text present in that image, it should show those text on a TextBox. Can anybody help me with this,please? Thanks in advance!!!

A:

If you don't want to spend years on developing your own solution, you could try these:
http://code.google.com/p/tesseractdotnet/
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/hawaii/default.aspx
BTW the search term for what you're looking for is "Optical Character Recognition" or "OCR".

