Read text from an image with PHP

Hi,

I would like to try to read some of text from an image with PHP.

So if I have an image like this:

Can I some how extract the "Some text" into a string.

All help and suggestions are appreciated.

From stackoverflow

• The process you are looking for is called Optical Character Recognition.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition

  There is a package available, called phpOCR, that does exactly what you need.

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpocr/

  Adnan : thanx for the tip.

• That's called OCR. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition ).

  It's not a trival task (that's why captcha's work as good as they do).

  You'd be better of googling 'OCR PHP' if you want to find solutions.