Are you drawing the animations? Could you create a template with all the cell numbers in the right place and print those out and draw on that? Then when you scan it in, use the Tesseract library ( http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) in some way (I've never used C before but maybe you have). From the limited reading I've done, it appears the Tesseract program outputs the text in an image file into a text file. That doesn't sound like it could help you, but if you can program that sounds like the library you'd use.
Tyler On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:51 PM, grant centauri <[email protected]> wrote: > now that i think about it more, perhaps a physical solution for > registration would be best... like taping animation pegs to my scanner or > something. i may be making this too hard on myself. ;) > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:40 PM, grant centauri <[email protected]>wrote: > >> just a question for the community. >> >> my idea is this: >> >> i'd like to replicate the experience of animating directly onto 16mm or >> 35mm film by using some kind of "exposure sheet" which can be scanned in and >> automatically chopped into frames and optionally converted into video. >> >> the sheet would have rows of "cells" representing the frames of film which >> could be drawn on and perhaps some kind of registration marks for the >> processing? >> >> does anyone know of any tool that can be used to detect registration marks >> and then perform the cropping necessary to get each cell into its own image >> file for animation? i imagine that imagemagick could probably do this, the >> thing i'm mostly concerned with is registration. i'd guess it would be >> difficult to get each scan perfectly aligned, but if there was some kind of >> registration marks maybe the computer could align them with a 'cropping >> template' somehow. >> >> i'm guessing this shouldn't be too difficult, i may have to do some >> hacking, but i was just wondering if anyone out there had any leads i could >> follow. >> >> also, if there's a way i can filter out the scanned background to emulate >> clear film that would be great too. perhaps this is in vain. >> > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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