Conversion of Images into Text using PHP?

[dream2rule]

Hello All,

I would need a script(if any) or ideas on how to go about in converting any type of an image file into a text document.

More Specifically:
The tasks can be even divided like

(1) Firstly, converting the image file into a PDF document and then

(2) The PDF document needs to be converted to a text file.

The IMAGE FILE being a Tiff image i.e, scanned copy of a text document.

Is there anyway where i would be able to convert a tiff image into a text file?

Is this possible using PHP?

Thanks & Regards,
dream2rule

[gRoberts]

I assume this is for OCR reasons? http://www.google.co.uk/search?clien...=Google+Search