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| Subject: | AreaDetector OCR plugin |
| From: | Rod Nussbaumer via Tech-talk <[email protected]> |
| To: | [email protected] |
| Date: | 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