So far I have following steps initiated: - went through some of the recommended reading material. - uploaded a "reference" image sequence taken with a license plate camera for testing. - opened a project on http://www.odesk.com - started on a project specification - installed ocropus for testing and experimenting
Beat On Jan 15, 6:17 pm, Yaroslav Bulatov <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a similar project -- to recognize numbers of people's jerseys > during a race. > > I already have code that detects the area with the number, and tried > to use ocropus to do OCR on that part. > > If I do "ocroscript recognize image.png" on the picture that just > contains bib number by itself, I either get nothing or, cryptic errors > like "background appears white". > > The most success I got was by embedding the number I extracted into > page with some text, like in picture > belowhttp://yaroslavvb.com/upload/run-run/test.png > > In that case, "bla bla bla" is recognized successfully, and 1016 is > recognized as "M6". > If I threshold that image and feed > inhttp://yaroslavvb.com/upload/run-run/test2.png, > ocropus recognizes "1016" as "@6" > > OCR is usually improved by restricting the size of the vocabulary. Is > there on option to tell Ocropus that output must be digits only? > > Yaroslav > > On Jan 14, 5:12 pm, bnaef <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am looking for an open-source license plate recognition software to > > analyze gray-scale jpg images. > > > Has anybody applied OCRopus to a license plate recognition > > application? > > If yes, would you mind sharing the experience? > > If not, could OCRopus serve as a suitable solution for a lpr > > application? > > > Any other suggestions and/or pointers? > > > There are some inquiries on tesseract re this topic, but I couldn't > > find anything in this group. (Maybe I missed it). > > > With kind regards > > Beat Naef --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ocropus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ocropus?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
