title: Using Java to capture an area of the screen and identify text found there
body: <p>This question may be beyond the scope of a simple answer here at stack <strong>overflow</strong>, but my hope is that it will lead me to be able to formulate several more specific questions to get where I need to be.</p>
  
  <p>I want to write a program that searches a buffered image for text and returns it as a string. I don't want to write an entire OCR program, but would rather use an API that is freely available such as tesseract. Unfortunately I've been unable to find a Java API for tesseract.</p>
  
  <p>I know that the font is arial and I know it's size. I am wondering if that will help.</p>
  
  <p>I've already managed to capture the screen, but I'm not sure how to accomplish the next step of identifying the text found in the image.</p>
  
  <p><strong>the question</strong></p>
  
  <p>How can I implement a simple OCR function into my java program?</p>