Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

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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


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