extract psd text layer's text

[itsmaddy]

Hello everyone,
does anybody know if we can extract the text of the particular layer in psd file.
http://www.imagehousing.com/image/926034
i want to extract the text in the psd text layer,using imagick.

[fmw42]

The file you show is a PNG image and not PSD. I don't see any way to download the PSD file.


Do you want text as characters or text as a binary image.

The former would require OCR. The latter could be done via thresholding.

[itsmaddy]

hey fmw42,
what i wanted is to extract the text from the text layer of the psd file.
you can download the psd file from the below link.
http://mirrorimg.net/im1/m5y.psd

in the provided psd file there are three layers named title,title content,header background.
out of these, 2 layers are text layer.(title,title content)
I want to get the text in the layer(title and title content)
i.e. for title layer - 'your title goes here' as my extracted text.
how can i extract the text from these two layers using imagemagick.

[Bonzo]

As fmw42 says the text will just be an image and you can not alter it.

This will save an image of all the layers:

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convert m5y.psd m5y.psd.png

This will select the layers you want:

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convert m5y.psd[2] layer2.png
convert m5y.psd[3] layer3.png