Make Your Bookshelf Clickable
We’ll confess that we have a fondness for real books and plenty of them. So does [James], and he decided he needed a way to take a picture of his …read more Continue reading Make Your Bookshelf Clickable
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You’ve Got Mail: Reading Addresses With OCR
Last time I delivered on this column, I told you about the USPS’ attempts to fully automate a post office. Of course, that’s a bit of a misnomer, since it …read more Continue reading You’ve Got Mail: Reading Addresses With OCR
Immersive Cursive: Growing Up Loopy
Growing up, ours was a family of handwritten notes for every occasion. The majority were left on the kitchen counter next to the sink, or in a particular spot on …read more Continue reading Immersive Cursive: Growing Up Loopy
Cursing the Curse of Cursive
Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed …read more Continue reading Cursing the Curse of Cursive
How to Search Images for Text Values Using OCR
Hello, everyone. Jordan here with the Oxygen Forensic training team. Today, I’m gonna show you how to search images for text values using optical character recognition. Let’s get started.
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Scanning Receipts Proves Trickier Than Anticipated
It’s one of those things that certainly sounds simple enough: take a picture of a receipt, run it through optical character recognition (OCR), and send the resulting information to whatever …read more Continue reading Scanning Receipts Proves Trickier Than Anticipated
Extracting Data from Smart Scale Gives Rube Goldberg A Run For His Money
[Kevin Norman] got himself a smart body scale with the intention of logging data for his own analysis, but discovered that extracting data from the device was anything but easy. …read more Continue reading Extracting Data from Smart Scale Gives Rube Goldberg A Run For His Money
Raspberry Pi Reads What It Sees, Delights Children
[Geyes30]’s Raspberry Pi project does one thing: it finds arbitrary text in the camera’s view and reads it out loud. Does it do so flawlessly? Not really. Was it at …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Reads What It Sees, Delights Children
British Licence Plate Camera Fooled By Clothing
It’s a story that has caused consternation and mirth in equal measure amongst Brits, that the owners of a car in Surrey received a fine for driving in a bus …read more Continue reading British Licence Plate Camera Fooled By Clothing
TMD-2: A Bigger, Better, More Collaborative Turing Machine
One of the things we love best about the articles we publish on Hackaday is the dynamic that can develop between the hacker and the readers. At its best, the comment section of an article can be a model of collaborative effort, with readers’ ideas and suggestions making their way …read more
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