Is it possible to read time stamps from photos?

I have thousands of photos, each with a time stamp identical to that above.

I'd like to write a script which will automatically read in the time and date of each photo. I understand computer vision is complicated but I wonder since it's a binary black and white time stamp if there is a simple solution out there to reading the time of each photo?

Thanks for any pointers!

[per isakson]

Search the File Exchange for OCR.

My Ms OneNote reads TLC2ØØ PRO 2ø197øeyø6 ø9 :øø : lø from your image.

Maybe the "photo-files" contains some metadata. What type of files are they?

[Louise Wilson]

Thanks Per. They are png files, I already checked the metadata but there's nothing there on date/time. This is because I created the png files from an avi file-I split the avi file into all of its frames. I'll take a look at OCR! That looks promising! Thanks

[per isakson]

There is a OCR function in the Matlab Computer Vision System Toolbox.

>> which ocr
C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2018b\toolbox\vision\vision\ocr.m