# Extract shapes and text from images

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extract-shapes-and-text-from-images/185531>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 22, 2010, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extract-shapes-and-text-from-images/185531 "2010-03-22T10:51:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 10:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extract-shapes-and-text-from-images/185531/1 "2010-03-22T10:51:39Z")

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Hi,

I would like extract some simple shapes such as rectangles, lines,  
circles and text from images.

I know of camellia but that is really not maintained (  
[http://bit.ly/9tjFIo](http://bit.ly/9tjFIo) ). Any suggestions what else I could use for that?

Regards

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ps: there was an old post around but didn’t help me much…

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**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extract-shapes-and-text-from-images/185531/2 "2010-03-23T13:01:16Z")

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Hi, any hints anybody?  
Or some references how could that be implemented?

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@comopasta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/comopasta)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extract-shapes-and-text-from-images/185531/3 "2010-03-23T13:43:00Z")

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comopasta Gr wrote:

> Hi, any hints anybody?  
> Or some references how could that be implemented?

My guess is that you’ll need to ask this on a forum more focused on OCR  
and graphics processing. This question is not specific to Rails.