Challenge: character extraction from screen capture

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mikeg
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Challenge: character extraction from screen capture

Post by mikeg »

While working on my project I came up with an idea for a challenge: ( Windows 10 BBC BASIC for Windows ) or BBCSDL

If anyone wants to try thier hand at extraction of characters from say a scanned page or say from a photo, I am also making a character extraction
tool for images. I didnt see anything like that yet for a sample, but maybe I just missed it. It doesn't need to do massive pages, but maybe just a sample scan.

I will end up supplying an image and a program for people to try once I am done mine. My character extraction will be just a small section of a screen and I will have more than 1 screen to test.
To all those that do this challenge, good luck.

HINT: You can snap a shot of any screen using FN and printscreen button. (easy)
Focus is on code subject. Feel free to judge the quality of my work.
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hellomike
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Re: Challenge: character extraction from screen capture

Post by hellomike »

I could use a OCR tool to, for example, convert from a JPG image to text into a simple TXT format.
So I wait for your tool to be ready.

Mike