Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Rod Nussbaumer via Tech-talk <[email protected]> · Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:20:42 -0800

All:

Has anyone developed an Optical Character Recognition plugin for

AreaDetector? The potential use case is to have a camera aimed at an

instrument front panel, and digitize the display to extract the

instrument's displayed output. I've already anticipated the potential

problems associated with multiplexed displays that may introduce

artifacts into the digitized images, so I don't want to attempt to

develop something that may be a failure anyway.

Are there any classes of inexpensive low resolution cameras supported by

AreaDetector? Like consumer grade webcams, for instance?

Yes, it's a hack, but easier than the alternatives in at least one

known case.

Rod Nussbaumer
TRIUMF
Vancouver, Canada