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Smoothing “font characters” outlines in bitmap image
Adobe Acrobat has this as a feature called ClearScan. While doing OCR it allows image enhancement, by smoothing irregularities on font outlines.
For example, this source:
turns to this:
Are ...
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Recognizing hand-written archaeological signs
I have 75 images of handwritten signs from which I extracted 7 Hu moments and solidity features. How can I find similarities among them to train a classifier and predict the value? I thought SVM was a ...
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OCR Implementation: Matching input with font data file
I have an idea of creating handwriting recognition app, for practice in machine learning skills. Just found useful link here
So dunno how awkward that sounds but so far what I've done is created ...
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What is the algorithm behind OCR?
I'm curious about the algorithm and basic principles behind Optical Character Recognition.
Can anyone explain:
The most basic OCR algorithm that can be fairly easily implemented from scratch? Or ...
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Nutrition facts label OCR
My team is working on a program that can read nutrition facts labels using OCR, much like NutriScanner (though by its reviews it doesn't seem like it works particularly well).
I've seen other ...
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Filtering kinda “half-toned” image for OCR processing
I have a scanned PDF material to which I want to add hidden text layer, so I could index the document. I used ghostscript black and white tiff output device (tiffg4) to extract pages as tiff images, ...
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Text recognition for Android app
I´d like to use some OCR algorithm (Image to Text) into an Android app (Java). I have previously used several algorithms but for a PC (Matlab) app. Which library or algorithm should I use? ...
