Image processing and extraction of characters

Question

I\'m trying to figure out what technologies I would need to process images for characters.

Specifically, in this example, I need to extract the hashtag that is circ

Answer 1

OCR works well with scanned document. What you are referring to is text detection in general images, which requires other techniques (sometimes OCR is used as part of the flow)

I'm not aware of any "production ready" implementations.

for general information try google scholar with: "text detection in images"

a specific method that worked well for me is 'stroke width transform' (SWT) it's not hard to implement, and I believe that there also some implementations available online.