IDEA: Optical character recognition

ygfperson · 10-03-2002, 10:01 PM

This is a corollary to the ascii graphics engine thread.

Basicly, my idea for this is to design a program which takes in a photo and converts it to text.

It could be hard... or it could be easy. It's highly scaliable.

harryP · 10-03-2002, 10:14 PM

That sounds pretty hard for me, personally. I wouldn't know where to even start!

Brendan

ygfperson · 10-04-2002, 01:02 PM

i'm suggesting starting with simply comparing an image of a letter to another bitmap of a letter. it can be hard... i've never had any experience writing stuff like that, so i'm not one to judge.

master5001 · 10-09-2002, 02:33 AM

I'm not sure which organization does this (i think the NSA) but there is a free library that was designed by whatever US government agency for converting handwriting into ascii. Anyone interested is going to have to look around but from what I've heard it is a solid library.

face_master · 10-09-2002, 02:40 AM

well, a bitmap is organised of bits ... 0 for black and 1 for while/not filled in or soemthing like that so you could probably read the bits in and do it that way ... just a thought

Magos · 10-09-2002, 10:12 AM

http://www.ykwong.com/asciipic.html

10-03-2002, 10:01 PM	#1
ygfperson Just because Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,502	IDEA: Optical character recognition This is a corollary to the ascii graphics engine thread. Basicly, my idea for this is to design a program which takes in a photo and converts it to text. It could be hard... or it could be easy. It's highly scaliable.
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harryP Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 124	That sounds pretty hard for me, personally. I wouldn't know where to even start! Brendan __________________ Draco dormiens nunquam titallandus. Console Graphics Library: http://www.geocities.com/steve_alberto/cgl.html
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10-04-2002, 01:02 PM	#3
ygfperson Just because Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,502	i'm suggesting starting with simply comparing an image of a letter to another bitmap of a letter. it can be hard... i've never had any experience writing stuff like that, so i'm not one to judge.
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10-09-2002, 02:33 AM	#4
master5001 Banned Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Visalia, CA, USA Posts: 3,699	I'm not sure which organization does this (i think the NSA) but there is a free library that was designed by whatever US government agency for converting handwriting into ascii. Anyone interested is going to have to look around but from what I've heard it is a solid library.
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face_master Refugee Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,052	well, a bitmap is organised of bits ... 0 for black and 1 for while/not filled in or soemthing like that so you could probably read the bits in and do it that way ... just a thought __________________ Please direct all complaints regarding this post to the nearest brick wall Have a nice day.
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