Advice for OCR solution (or alternative)

From: Andrew Parker (aparker_at_stanford.edu)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:20:38 -0700

I'm writing software that does a screen scrape of an application (which is
proprietary code and no OLE controls) to strip text information from the
screenshot image and then manipulates the application.

I've chosen Java for this project because the Java.awt.robot class has the
necessary tools for capturing the screenshot and manipulating the
application as desired. However, I'm stumped on how to best scrape the text
data from the screenshot image... does anyone know of any open source OCR
classes available for reading text from a picture, given that I know the
font size and weight used in the image? Is there a workaround that doesn't
involve OCR that anyone can think of? Does anyone have experience with this
type of application that has guidence towards useful resources?

Thanks,
Andrew