Questions tagged [text-recognition]
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Isolating text on a photograph
I hope this is the right place to ask.
In the movies, it is always possible to extract text from an image no matter how faint or blurred! As a layperson I don't know to what extent this is possible.
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MATLAB: Prepare an RGB image for digit and letter recognition
I need a Matlab function that prepares an image for digit and letter recognition.
What I need now is to convert the original RGB image to a binary image that every pixel in it is white except the ...
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How to identify text size using image processing?
For a side project at home, I have several pdf documents in "standard" form (White background, black font for text).
For several pages, I have footnotes which are different in size from the main body.
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Outlined text extraction from image using OpenCV
I have some video frames I'd like to extract some text from (for making softsubs from hardsubbed video for learning). The text in question is mostly in Chinese script (some numbers and Latin letters) ...
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How to Clean Black and White Images Which Are Results of Edge Detection
I want to extract text from some images with messy backgrounds.
First step was switching to gray scale, applying an edge detection algorithm, and then cleaning up a little bit.
Here's an example of ...
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How to use optical character recognition program to read coins? [closed]
I had a friend that goes through my pennies trying to find valuable rare pennies. Instead of looking at each one could a optical character recognition program be used to flag coins?
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A guy is taking pictures of my home and family, how do I decode his license plate? [closed]
I had no idea where to post this.
I'm trying to decode a license plate and take it to the police station. The police said that they'll try to decode it, with no promises. If they had a full license ...
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Discrete Fourier Transform for text analysis?
I would like to determine the number of text-blocks verifying a roughly similar pattern. I have the intuition that I could do it using some Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)-like methodology.
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Generic text recognition
OCR is a quite an old subject in Image Processing & Vision. However, the most literature that I had come across 1, 2, 3 shows various matured techniques which I am sure will give some good results ...
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Number segmentation techniques
Assume that the speed limit at a place is captured and is provided as an input to a system which checks if the speed of vehicle is above the accepted level or not. For checking, the number in the ...
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What are the keywords to find an algorithm that detects embossed text from a 3d model?
Currently I am doing an acadmic research about an idea which came into my mind lately. I have a 3d model and I want to extract embossed text .. anyone knows any papers? or if it is already proposed? ....
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Using neural networks for rotation invariant OCR
I have video with text which can be rotated in any direction. If I trained a neural network on images of each letter at all possible degrees of rotation, would it be possible to classify the ...
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which spatio-temporal properties does dynamic textures exhibits?
know that dynamic textures are spatially repetitive and temporally varying patterns.
1.I read one sentence in one paper i.e. They are sequences of frames exhibiting certain stationarity properties ...
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What is a low-pass filter for a sequence of tuples?
I am currently reading SEGMENTATION AND RECOGNITION OF SYMBOLS WITHIN HANDWRITTEN MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS. There is one sentence I don't understand:
The preprocessing stage is subdivided into ...
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Base line detection of text lines
I came across various works in the literature of document analysis addressing the problem of detecting base lines in multi-oriented texts. But no amount of search could give me satisfactory answer to ...
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Detecting Arabic verses spanning multiple lines
I need to build a Quran app and I want to read out the verses when a user touches it. The problem I'm facing is that some verses may expand to one and half lines (highlighted red verse) or just fit in ...
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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? ...
