odd question: how to "read" letters from an image?

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From: VMI (vonchi_m_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:34:12 -0400

Is it possible to "look" at an image and "read" the letters inside of that
image? For example, if I have several images of exactly the same size and
each has two lines of letters (Name, telephone) that always start and end in
the same exact position, is it possible to analyze that part of the image
and distinguish between the "light" pixels (the image background) and the
"dark" pixels (the pixels that compose the letters)? Then I can create a
string of those dark pixels.
I'm not looking for a definitive answer; I just want to explore some way of
doing this, even if it's very elemntary.

Thanks.

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