On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Alvin O'Sullivan wrote:
It is in the early concept stages, but I was thinking that the user interface would be a piece of glass/plastic the input device would be a webcam on the inside of a box/resonator. The ambient light outside of the box (no pun intended) would be enough of a difference to read the opaque markings as parse-able characters.
Ok, this is two-dimensional reading, which is already a lot more ordinary. If characters are upright (non-rotated) it may be even more ordinary. This means it'll be easier to find existing support for reading characters, or to (re)invent that support.
Beyond that, I don't know much more about OCR.
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