[Qgis-user] Find text string in old Maps

[Richard McDonnell]

Fellow QGIS users,

I have rasters of old maps covering the entire country, what I would 
like to do is search the raster for a specific line of text, and 
generate a point file for every instance of the text found.
I know in theory this should be possible, I was wondering if any one has 
done it, or does anyone have any suggestions?
The text style and size would be uniform, along with the wording, the 
only thing liable to vary is the orientation. I thought about running a 
classification on the raster, training it to look for the pattern, but 
thought I might put it out there, as someone of you may have a better 
suggestion.

Regards & thanks,

Richard.



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