Package org.opencastproject.textextractor.api

Interface TextExtractor

All Known Implementing Classes:

TesseractTextExtractor

public interface TextExtractor

Interface for implementations that are able to extract text from an image.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
List<String>	extract(File image)	Extracts text from the image and returns it as a set of lines in the text frame.

Method Details

extract

List<String> extract(File image)
              throws IOException,
TextExtractorException

Extracts text from the image and returns it as a set of lines in the text frame.

Parameters:

image - the image

Returns:

the text

Throws:

IOException - if the file can't be read

TextExtractorException - if text extraction fails