OCR of Image

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Tue, 11/24/2015 - 04:44 pm

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to take an image, threshold/grayscale it to a almost two color image, and do character recognition of that image. Does Igor have anything built in for OCR? Is there any way to call a Windows program to OCR the image after converting to a two color image? I've played with execute scripts a little bit but only with things that require a single command line. Not sure how this would work with a more complex program which may require multiple commands.


Thanks,
IGOR does not have built-in OCR. Depending on your needs simple OCR is not difficult to implement for limited applications. Otherwise you are indeed better off using ExecuteScriptText to hand off the job to a program designed for OCR.

A.G.
WaveMetrics, Inc.

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