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CCTV Automatic number plate recognition and integration of data,software?.

Hi, I have a client who is looking for a solution to integrate cctv with a (any) ANPR solution that can,I assume recognize the number plate of cars and store in a database and has the ability to post this data to other backoffice applications, crm, marketing app. etc. Is there any ready software to do this ? Or your recommendations ?...

String typeface comparison algorithm

I believe, there is an algorithm, which can equal two strings with similar typefaces of a characters, but different symbols (digits, Cyrillic, Latin or other alphabets). For example: "hello" (Latin symbols) equals to "he11o" (digits and Latin symbols) "HELLO" (Latin symbols) equals to "НЕLLО" (Cyrillic and Latin symbols) "really" (Lati...

Please suggest some good books about image analysis or image processing

I wish to become a good specialist in image processing, for example I want to know how to find barcodes or car plates and so on, anything that i think about, an apple on image. And then to do something more, for example decode the barcode or just write - this is an apple. So do you know a good book or online course? ...

Where to begin my quest for knowledge in regards to OCR/ICR?

I'm in search of and useful source of knowledge on Optical/Intelligent Character Recognition, Image and Pattern recognition. Any books, papers, websites and whatever. Thanks! ...

What is the best algorithm to locate a point in an image file?

Hi all, I want to create a mark sheet recognizer. Here is the description: My system uses black and white color scheme. The mark sheet paper has a small black rectangle on each corner and an additional small black rectangle, to determine orientation, near one of the previous rectangles. The paper is scanned to yield an image (in bmp f...

OCR on camera captured image Error

Hi When I try to perform the OCR of the following image, http://i46.tinypic.com/10pvn85.jpg I get the output as either "HELLO WORLD 1- VINAYAK AGARWAL" or it gives an OCR->error. However, I want the output to be "HELLO WORLD VINAYAK AGARWAL". I am using the Microsoft OCR engine. I want to ask if it is possible to remove the lines as ...

Translate a picture to text on Android?

I know that google goggles will translate a picture to text. What I want to do is allow the user to take a picture (no problem), translate that picture to text(?) and then do some processing on the text (no problem). Is there any API on android that allows this? or is there any way to programtically communicate with google goggles? I wo...

Java OCR Help Needed

Hello, How do I detect all the characters in an image? The image is in png and the font is constant. For simplicity, lets assume that the image has only numeric digits and there are only 4 digits on an image. I need to read all of them and output the text. Can you help? Thanks in advance. ...

Parse text from a screen grab

Hey guys Not sure the best way to explain this but i'll give it a shot. I'm trying to find a way to parse text/numbers from a screen grab in either C# or Java - whichever provides the easiest way, but preferably java. An example would be as follows. You have a website/document/application with a block of text. You can take a screenshot...

Why is OCR(MODI.MiLANGUAGES.miLANG_ENGLISH, true, true) causing an OCR running error?

Hi folks, I am using MODI to read tiff images and do what I need to do with the text. Some images work fine and then other tiff images always cause the method, OCR(MODI.MiLANGUAGES.miLANG_ENGLISH, true, true) to fail. I have researched this and tried different variations such as 'false','false' in the parameter list. I have also tried...

Detect numbers and process them ?

Hi, I am trying to detect the numbers written on a grid and then process them using the iPhone camera. What i have found till yet are some good examples like: http://blog.damiles.com/?p=93 http://cmgresearch.blogspot.com/2010/01/augmented-reality-on-iphone-how-to_01.html Although I am able to draw the numbers on the overlay view to ...

We need a solution for high-volume scanning, OCR, digitally sign, store, search and retrieve documents.

We provide notary service in Brazil, which is a public concession in this country. We are now searching for a solution to: 1 - scan in high-volume; 2 - run OCR in a batch; 3 - digitally sign the generated files (digital notarization); 4 - store in a network environment with off-site replication; 5 - websearch (Google appliance?); 6 - ret...

Processing OCRed text

Hi I am extracting texts from OCRed Tiff files by using a library and dumping it in database. The text I am extracting are actually FORMS having fields like NAME,DOB,COUNTRY etc. Since OCR does not the difference between actual value and the label,it's just dumping all text. Now I have text in DB in following format: Name: MyName Ad...

OCR replacement for MODI

I have recently been using the builtin OCR functionality of MODI to capture text of a window. I use the window handle and could get text at any region or I could get the coordinates of specific text that I want to search for. It looks like MODI has been depricated, and it isn't included in office 2010 which we're now using, so I need...

Access text recognized by Acrobat OCR

I have PDF files that have been "recognized" using the OCR Text Recognition -> Recognize Text Using OCR functionality in Acrobat. I would like to take these as an upload (C# ASP.NET MVC) and be able to extract this information for indexing and search purposes. I have tried opening the PDF files and I don't find any of the recognized te...

Training tesseract to use with iPhone

Hi all, I am trying to use tesseract-2.04 in my iPhone application and just want to detect the numbers. What I am doing here is first I am cross compiling tesseract to generate lib file using this post http://robertcarlsen.net/2009/07/15/cross-compiling-for-iphone-dev-884 and then using the the demo application at http://robertcarlsen.n...

Using R for simple image/pattern-recognition task ?

Hi all, I have an image with many dots, and I would like to extract from it what is the x-y location of each dot. I already know how to do this manually (there is a package for doing it). However, is there some way of doing it automatically ? (My next question will be - is there a a way, when having an image of many lines, to detect ...

need libary to ocr a printed page and create tab delimited file from it

I am generating a pdf for a client. This has two columns ... ID and a blank column for the end user to put in some character. I want the client to be able to upload a bmp/jpg/tif whatever (i can specify) image of the printed pdf with its two columns and turn it into a csv/tab/whatever file with the values of the two columns. Can anyone r...

Python: what's the gdata method for uploading an image with enabled OCR?

as demonstrated on this PHP code, (http://code.google.com/p/gdata-samples/source/browse/trunk/doclist/OCRDemo/ocr.php?r=194 ) where an image can be uploaded to google docs that is automatically converted to text. i'm wondering how to do this in python. there is an "upload" method, but i'm just puzzled how to enable the OCR function. ...

How do I get the coordinates of some text thats part of an image?

I want to cut up the image based on various text markers placed around within it. The font/size of the marker is up to me. I know commercial OCR packages provide this in their APIs but I'm hoping I can code this up myself. Ideally I wouldn't have to go pixel to pixel and compare against an image of the marker text. I'm good with C++/...