Thanks for the clear description of the situation. So (metaphorically speaking) this sounds like Google's Tesseract OCR "engine"[1]: yes it'll recognize letter

Thanks for the clear description of the situation. So (metaphorically speaking) this sounds like Google's Tesseract OCR "engine"[1]: yes it'll recognize letters - but it does no layout analysis. It's only one piece of a much larger puzzle. [1] https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/