ICR or Intelligent Character Recognition involves the recognition of handwritten text and other irregular glyphs. Reliable ICR is a tough task, as handwritten text inherently has a lot of variation, attributed to the varied styles of writing of different people from different cultures and also the variations in the handwriting of the same person.
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How would you detect text based on coordinates in Java?
I'm trying to figure out if there's some kind of library that can recognize characters based on the general locations of coordinate points. It would need to be able to detect various shapes, sizes, scales, variations, etc. In this Example, it would…
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Can the Google Vision API be directed to detect single characters only, or non-English strings?
For example, I'd like to detect a coded string like "A5b1x" written in handwriting. So I'd either split it up manually so that I have an image of each character, or try to have Vision recognize it immediately. Neither is working for now, as I'm not…
Rithwik Sudharsan
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Using specific regions in input image for handwriting recognition with MS API
Can we send specific coordinates within an input image to the MS handwriting recognition API so that not the whole but only those specific areas in the image are recognized.
Abhinav Mohan
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How to remove contour within the contour in Opencv3 python
I am using the following lines of code for ICR
im2,contours,hier =cv2.findContours(thresh.copy(),cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for cnt in contours:
if (cv2.contourArea(cnt)>50 and cv2.contourArea(cnt)<1000):
[x,y,w,h] =…
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Using Microsoft InkAnalysis APIs without Tablet input?
I recently discovered that all Windows 7 machines have an handwriting recognition API within them called Microsoft Ink Analysis ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms704040(v=vs.85).aspx ).
I would like to use the API for…
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