Use external OCR software to convert the image to text before reading the resulting text into SAS. SAS does not have in-built OCR, AFAIK. See hints for using google tesseract from SAS here: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Text-and-Content-Analytics/How-to-import-pdf-and-jpg-files-in-SAS-Text-Miner-for-parsing/td-p/329375 ... View more