# Extract numbers from image

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**Created:** [2 April 2021 01:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/extract-numbers-from-image/43529 "2021-04-02T01:13:13Z")\
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The process is OCR. it stands for optical character recognition.

If you use node-red contrib image tools, you can crop the image to the LCD part (making the OCR do less work& focusing it only on the region of interest) this should be fairly reliable.

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