I see your e-mail from uchicago.edu (an educational institution) Then I
think I should put some of my thoughts.
Your intended project will have 3 "big Jobs"
- Digitize 100,000+ images already take a good bit of investment. If you
just scan them they are bitmaps. Then you also need some good package to
vectorize them. There are many 'vendors' claim they can do it but in reality
it just the lines few bit at a time -Sorry I was one of them- If there is
one that can superb job He/she is very rich now for just vectorize for film
industry. I say on my background that I have my own OCR engine and my own
(OFR) Optical Form Recognition engine.
- Then user upload. - What format I mean raster/vector If you allow them to
draw then submit vector format then you are in fact need a web-base vector
graphic editor. It's too early to have one on the web now - I think?
OR If you allow user to upload raster- I will pull my hair and say Oh
My God ! ! Or may be I don't have enough background.
Once you have the two above decided then you will think of the way how to
match. Once you got the two above decided the let me know I can share you
how I can recognize a letter 'A' size 6 and a letter 'A' size 72( They both
come from the bitmap and the scan bitmap may need to de=skew too) I talk too
much have I ? ?
Phi
On 7/6/06, quinn.anya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello. I'm considering using SVG for a certain project, and was
> wondering how hard it would be to do.
>
> I have a collection of 100,000+ line drawings (watermarks from paper
> used in medieval manuscripts). I'd like to digitize them and put them
> in a database whereby a user could upload their own line drawing and
> an algorithm would compare that drawing to the other drawings in the
> database, and display the ones that match most closely. Ideally, it'd
> also provide some type of number specifying how closely the drawings
> match.
>
> Is SVG the best image format for this? How hard would it be to write
> that sort of searching algorithm? Sorry for such a general and basic
> question-- I don't know a whole lot about SVG yet.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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