Thanks for the followup on this. I experimented some with tesseract and
came to the same conclusion.
Since the values assigned to each character are standard wthin Scrabble,
I don't really need to detect those tiny numerals. But the alpha chars
are of course essential.
I believe there must be a way to get there. Thankfully no one is
pressuring me to finish it, so I can explore.
Phil
On 10/28/19 1:57 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote:
After a second read I think it will be hard to find a service to do that
for you. And this is not doable using tesseract or similar from LiveCode:
AFAIK, no "ordinary" OCR software is able to detect and read horizontal
*and* vertical text and distinguish clearly between the board's "Score
text" and the "Scrabble letters". You (or your service) would have to
write an own "learning routine" for that.
E.g. the algorithm described here:
http://rasdasd.com/projects/Scrabble_Detector/Scrabble_Paper.pdf
There are also approaches for own specialized boards like here
https://github.com/eladj/ScrabbleOCR
You could try to use the java from there via LC Builder's FFI.
Phil D. wrote:
I want to [programmatically] take a picture of a Scrabble board and then
take from that image the characters displayed in it, and maintain the
organization of the text. In other words, I want to convert the text
displayed in the image to text strings.
Any ideas where I should start?
I would love to be able to do it in my app. However I'm not completely
against uploading the image to a service that would do it for me; I am
only mostly against it.
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