Easy image recognition

This is an 101 coursework. If u have experience with image recognition this will be a trivial job (2-3 hours work). An image is attached. It came out of scanning a document. It contains digits - zeros and ones. You should create an application that A) Counts the number of ones and zeros. e.g. "This image has 3 ones and 4 zeros" B) Create a text file 'equivelent' to the image e.g. a text file [login to view URL] with content "01100000000111 1011110010101" (its the numbers displayed in the image as they would be read by a human) You can use any programming language. Please state what software u will use in your bid. Matlab - octave (gnu) is also allowed. Finally a small word report would be welcome (explaining what libraries, what functions you used etc..)