Tag Archives: Optical Character Recognition

A sample of a ‘scanned’ puzzle.

So this is a section of a sudoku puzzle as the code sees it: <img src="http://www.thelostsouls.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/binarysample.jpg" alt="" title="Binary Sample" width="800" height="399" class="size-full wp-image-65" srcset="https://www.thelostsouls.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/binarysample Continued.jpg 800w, https://www.thelostsouls.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/binarysample-300×149.jpg 300w” sizes=”(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px” /> A small section of a Sudoku converting … Continue reading

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Well that was sodding hard work….

OK so I’ve praised MagicWand now I feel I can curse it. I want a 1bit BMP out of the thing. A bitmap is easy, it’s smart. I write something ending in jpg it writes a jpg, I want a … Continue reading

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MagickWand and OCR

The problem with photographs and OCR is they contain lots of noise and colour that is really not helpful.  Levels and Posterise alongside other tools in the GIMP or Photoshop help but they’re hardly automatic and can’t be compiled into … Continue reading

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