Image::OCR::Tesseract ===================== You will need tesseract and ImageMagick installed on your system. This package runs on linux. INSTALLING TESSERACT ==================== Installing tesseract can be tricky. You will basically need gcc-c++ and automake installed on your system. You may be able to simply install the SVN version of Tesseract by using: svn checkout http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ tesseract-ocr ./runautoconf mkdir build-directory cd build-directory ../configure make make install for more see google project on ocr, they use tesseract