It's ok...

 

I've found something on download.com called "TOCR Viewer" and it's very good, it can't read jpg files (as you were likely to tell me), but I saved a jpg file as a greyscale bmp and it read and converted it perfectly

 

The reason I needed this...

 

I have 8 cds with mp3 tracks on them, because I've collected the mp3s over time from cds and Audiogalaxy, Napster, Kazaa Lite over the years I've never kept a record of what's on each cd (and with 150 tracks on each cd it can be a nuisance sifting through them all to find one track)

 

I did type each track individually about a month ago, then accidentally binned the file lol... and didn't fancy typing the whole lot out again.. but I did do some jpg files a while back with a "print screen" image of the contents of each cd... although it was still a case of staring at each jpg file to look for a track, it saved more time than putting a cd in, looking down the list, then taking the cd out and putting the next cd in etc etc to find one track

 

Unfortunately (for those reading with interest that don't know about this) you can't do a "search" for text on an image with text in it, because in the computer's eyes it's just an image made up of dots, rather than each text character being a recognised character.. so it takes a while to read through the image manually to find what you want

 

This thing has converted those images into text files (removing all the extra graphics from the image, such as the icons with each file.. i.e. hello.mp3 would have a funny icon to the left of it, or above it to indicate which program opens it)

 

Now the text has been recognised and extracted into a text file, it's saved me a good 2 hours of typing  ... AND I can just do a "find" and instantly get the text I'm looking for now it's a regular text file