Text in images

[Oorang]

I have several image files (.bmp) with Arial Font text (black on white).
I am trying to parse them into an ascii file. However I cannot figure out how to do this via VBA. Can it be done? Or is there a program out there that can do it?

 

[Zack Barresse]

I think you'd need an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program for that. I'm sure you can do the searching on that, none of it looks too pretty though.

 

[Oorang]

Well that ought to get me started at least. I was trying to search on image to text and getting nowhere


Edit:
That was the exact right phrase to search on. I found freeware program, but I found it's error rate was too high. But then a friend's husband suggested I trying using Adobe's Print driver to print to a pdf (Print-to-file was not available.) And viola! Converted it on to text and life was good.