I'd suggest looking at OpenCV. It looks more like a computer vision task than an OCR task. Some of the specific issues like dials not fully aligned in the window are things the OCR systems aren't designed to deal with, but you could use domain knowledge to deal with in a system like OpenCV.
Here's a description of implementing a meter reader in OpenCV: http://www.thekompf.com/cplus/emeocv.html Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/603be7e2-c8af-44ff-a1e6-7645d0748267%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
