aim97 / ocr

java OCR application with Matlab backend

OCR (Optical character recognition)

A simple application that can extract characters from a given image, let's say you have a book of just images, and you can't copy the data from it, this application will read the images and produce a text file for each.

How it works

the program relies on Matlab OCR tools for detecting the characters in the image, and produces a file to the given desctination, java is used to provide a more user friendly Interface for the user.

dependencies

• Matlab: you need to install the computer vision toolbox (or generally the toolbox that ha OCR in it)
• JRE (Java runtime environment)

Limitations and Future work

• the project only works on a single specified image, so it can't really solve the book problem above yet 😄, so the future work is simply to make it handle that part, to open a given folder, read all images in it and make a book out of it.
• May be you want to write the output to something other than .txt files like .docx or something, but we won't do that, you want it, do it yourself 😄.

Participants

• Mohamed Abd-elmagid (me 😄)
• Manar Arabi
• Mahmoud Atef
• Salma sayed

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Licence

WE don't have a licence so just check and add one