[PD] OCR with Puredata?
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Wed Jun 1 20:54:26 CEST 2011
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Alvin O'Sullivan wrote:
> It is in the early concept stages, but I was thinking that the user
> interface would be a piece of glass/plastic the input device would be a
> webcam on the inside of a box/resonator. The ambient light outside of
> the box (no pun intended) would be enough of a difference to read the
> opaque markings as parse-able characters.
Ok, this is two-dimensional reading, which is already a lot more ordinary.
If characters are upright (non-rotated) it may be even more ordinary. This
means it'll be easier to find existing support for reading characters, or
to (re)invent that support.
Beyond that, I don't know much more about OCR.
_______________________________________________________________________
| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
More information about the Pd-list
mailing list