Does anybody know about a product or an open source project that would do OCR (Optical Character Recognition) of a VGA stream? The VGA screens are very simple, numbers and strings in fixed locations. The screens do not change too often, or when they do, a readout every few seconds is ok.
Why bother? I would like to connect to the network some older medical devices that do not have any digital interfaces. I would use a VGA splitter to split the VGA signal, run OCR on it, then feed the recognized numbers/strings to various programs. I am talking about very simple OCR here, like numbers from 000.0 to 359.9.
Has anybody seen anything like this?
