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so i have been searching for some technique to be applied, so far i found OCR but it doesn't help much as the main idea is to hover the camera and highlight the important words for Digital content to be displayed.. can someone please pin point about the technique..??
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Richard MacCutchan 11-Aug-15 11:57am    
There is no simple answer. The only way that you can do this is by capturing the picture, and then using an OCR library to process the data.
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Aug-15 12:10pm    
Is it your own idea, or did you saw some implementation of it? The idea sounds pretty questionable to me, but I think something similar might work. In all cases, this is still OCR.
—SA
Sānyà Sani 11-Aug-15 12:33pm    
No, the idea was suggested by my teachers for my final year project, why questionable do u think it cant be implemented..??
F-ES Sitecore 11-Aug-15 12:39pm    
It can be implemented, lots of apps do this already, there are apps that translate menus, signs etc by holding the video camera up to them and the text is translated into another language on top of the image in the viewfinder. There are also lots of augmented reality apps that can detect environmental aspects of a picture. I've no idea how they work though, it'll be a fairly specialised field of maths and image processing, neural networks etc. OCR and "augmented reality" are the fields you want to be studying though, and I'm sure doing this from scratch is going to be far from trivial.
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Aug-15 12:44pm    
Agree. The questionable part is "focus". If Sānyà Sani means camera auto-focus, one needs more refined control: moving in steps, allowing the focus to settle and getting the confirmation. That is, camera features have to be integrated with motion system and OCR. Alternatively, auto-focusing could be implemented as the part of the software application, not in camera. This is all not simple at all. But yes, it can be ultimately implemented; it's just a lot of problems to be solved. If focusing is required, it means that the uniform distance to the object is not maintained. In turn, it means that alignment and scaling becomes other problems.
—SA

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