image file to convert character in open cv

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Hi, I need to recognize a character in an image. Can one pls help me in this? can i use OpenCV .

the character would look like : WALK ;the letter in block color backround in white.
please give me sample code in opencv2.2

Posted 19-Apr-12 4:39am

p.v.hema

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Apr-12 13:04pm

You do not need to "convert" a character. What you need is called OCR.
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-04-19T07:10:00

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What you need is called OCR — Optical Character Recognition. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition[^].

For starters on OCR with OpenCV, please see this nice and short article:
http://blog.damiles.com/2008/11/basic-ocr-in-opencv/[^].

You can find some more:
http://bit.ly/HTGwC3[^].

Good luck,

—SA

Posted 19-Apr-12 7:10am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 19-Apr-12 7:11am

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VJ Reddy 19-Apr-12 20:11pm

Good references. 5!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Apr-12 20:41pm

Thank you, VJ.
--SA