Thank you Thomas, this has been very helpful indeed. Greetings
On Nov 15, 12:43 pm, "Thomas Breuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is some overlap between OCR and OMR, but the actual processing
> is different:
>
> For OCR, the steps are roughly:
>
> * preprocess image
> * divide the page into columns and lines
> * recognize the text in each line
> * post-process with a language model
>
> For OMR, the steps are roughly:
>
> * preprocess image
> * align page image with template(s)
> * compute differences between template and image
> * decide whether those differences constitute an optical mark
>
> So, there are significant differences between the two problems.
> Still, OCRopus implements many algorithms that are potentially useful
> for building an OMR system.
>
> Outside of OCRopus, my research group has been developing tools that
> can also be used for OMR and voting systems, although our primary
> focus has been in the alignment and recognition of historical
> documents.
>
> Have a look at "Automated OCR Ground Truth Generation" and "Image
> Matching for Revision Detection in Printed Historical Documents"
> onhttp://pubs.iupr.org/
>
> Tom
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 09:37, adamt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Greetings Gentlemen, i was wondering if i can build a voting system
> > using ocropus. The input is a paper template where a circle next to
> > the candidate name is darkened . The system has to recognize the dots
> > and calculate the votes. The reason i ask this is because i have to
> > know if this is doable using ocropus before getting more deep into it.
> > Any responses/suggestions are highly appreciated. Thank you.
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