# Read the text on image **URL:** \ **Category:** 3rd Party Modules\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [October 25, 2022, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-the-text-on-image/65641 "2022-10-25T07:21:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
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After a quick search of the forum, here's everything I found on this topic: > [@OCR for vision systems](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ocr-for-vision-systems/16965/4): > > Thanks for the explanation, I do see where you are going with this. Ignition can certainly do what you need it to do, but I would recommend at looking into other avenues. Specifically, I would consider leveraging cloud services such as Azure or AWS to offload the image processing outside of your Ignition Gateway. There are already tools within these platforms to do OCR; one example is Amazon Rekognition ([https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/text-detection.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/text-detection.html)). You can interface … > [@OCR REST - Jython, Web Dev?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ocr-rest-jython-web-dev/36833/29): > > Worked with Patrick to get the example code working with system.net.httpClient() - we had to move the username/password to the actual post call, instead of calling it on the client - Java’s HTTPClient only returns authentication if the server returns a specific WWW-Authenticate header. If you specify a username and password on the actual request, it’ll get parsed into a (basic auth) Authentication header for you. # import shutil """ Sample project for OCRWebService.com (REST API). Extract te… > [@Useful Tools Thread](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/useful-tools-thread/34614/2): > > This program can pull text from screenshots and PDFs. It is a front-end to another program, tesseract-ocr. [gImageReader](https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader)[Tesseract-OCR](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) • [Tesseract User Manual | tessdoc](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-the-text-on-image/65641)._