This may be right on the edge of appropriate for Stack Overflow. Feel free to downgrade it if I'm out of line. I'm looking for a business card reader on the iPhone that will call back my own app via URL scheme. It's certainly easy enough on the technical side. In your app, you set up the basic URL scheme for yourself. Their app resp...
I am looking to use/buy a OCR solution for my next iPhone app. Searching through the answers on this site didn't really help me a lot. Did anybody ever use ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine for iPhone? What interests me is how good is it (recognition) and how much does it cost? Thank you. ...
I put together a quick WinForm/embedded IE browser control which logs into our company's bank website each morning and scrapes/exports the desired deposit information (the bank is a smallish regional bank). Since we have a few dozen "pseudoaccounts" that draw from the same master account, this actually takes 10-15 minutes to retrieve. ...
Hello everybody! I am still a beginner but I want to write a character-recognition-program. This program isn't ready yet. And I edited a lot, therefor the comments may not match exactly. I will use the 8-connectivity for the connected component labeling. from PIL import Image import numpy as np im = Image.open("D:\\Python26\\PYTHON-PRO...
I'd like recommendations on proportional-width fonts that are attractive and easy to read, but which are also easy to process with OCR. I'd love to push my OCR results from acceptable to excellent without having to throw every decent, proportional-width font out the door. Fonts I've ruled out include OCR-A (monospaced and horrid), OCR-B...
Does anybody have any idea about any recent work being done on optical character recognition for Indian scripts using modern Machine Learning techniques ? I know of some research being done at ISI, calcutta, but nothing new has come up in the last 3-4 years to the best of my knowledge, and OCR for Devanagari is sadly lacking! ...
I want to write a .NET program that takes an image of a specific coin type (say a US nickle) and then searches the image for the year. Assume the scan is always 300dpi and has a consistent image size cropped to the coin. What changes is the rotation of the coin. So how would I determine the date? Should I image match by creating a libra...
Does anyone know an OCR library for .NET that will run also on Mono? All options I've found are C# wrappers to libraries that run only under Windows. I need my program to run on both Windows and Linux. ...
Are there any free OCR libraries that work with PHP? Perhaps there is a different way to do OCR on a website. If so please share. EDIT: Python is also acceptable. EDIT2: I'm working with a Linux server, ideally. ...
I am writing a simple OCR solution for a finite set of characters. That is, I know the exact way all 26 letters in the alphabet will look like. I am using C# and am able to easily determine if a given pixel should be treated as black or white. I am generating a matrix of black/white pixels for every single character. So for example, the...
I've been trying to find a solution to my problem for quite a while. I need to build a program that reads data off of the screen, recognizes characters and images and then acts based on what characters and images are. For example, I provide it with a picture of a dog, a picture of each possible character, and it would be able to read the...
Hi I am a final year engineering student from India. Working on a project to develop an application to perform OCR on English Text on an Android mobile phone. I am hoping to use an existing open source OCR engine. like tesseract for example. Can anyone please help me? point me in the right direction? this is my first ever project. ...
I have an OCR project, but it works good only with images in which the text is fairly straight, not upside down. (not rotated text) So I want to make OCR to be able to recognize any kind of images, even upside down. But I don't know what are approaches to solve this problem. I need something like analysis of lines of letters, but even ...
Is there an easy way to generate a labeled bitmap image for each glyph contained in a given bitmap font file? I'm trying to convert a collection of Japanese .bdf fonts into a format usable in MATLAB and C++, where each glyph is used as the OCR classification key for the character it represents. ...
i have decided to make my final year project as "Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Devanagari language"...kindly suggest me.....how to start with the project....what are the steps i need to take to build up this project... Waiting for the reply ...
After a lot of experiments, I still can't get the following script working. I need some guidance on how to diagnoze this particular Perl problem. Thanks in advance. This script is for testing the use of Office 2007 OCR API: use warnings; use strict; use Win32::OLE; use Win32::OLE::Const; Win32::OLE::Const->Load("Microsoft Office Docum...
Is it possible to limit the set of characters that tesseract is looking for (e.g. search only for letters a-z)? That would improve my results greatly. ...
Hi, I'm using Tesseract for my letter recognition project and currently the recognitions is quite good. The image processing part was done using OpenCv libraries. The letters are hand written.But there are some problems when I used it to recognise the letter "O" and number "0". These letters are used in data areas as the fields that ent...
What is the best way to programmatically check if a PDF file is a totally scanned one? I do have iText and PDFBox at my disposal. I can check if a pdf file contains text or not, and according to the result to decide if this file is OCRed, but this solution is not 100% accurate. I'd like to know whether there is another way to cope with ...
Hi, I would like a library (preferably free) that is capable to read characters from an image and convert them to text. The input I will have is not a document, but a set of bitmaps that contain only one character each, and return a character in ASCII format for each bitmap. The format of the input bitmap will be binarized and the size...