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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.
In today’s video, I’ll be discu… Continue reading How to Search Images for Text Values Using OCR
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
Project management service Wrike today announced a major update to its platform at its user conference that includes a lot of new AI smarts for keeping individual projects on track and on time, as well as new solutions for marketers and project management offices in large corporations. In addition, the company also launched a new […] Continue reading Wrike launches new AI tools to keep your projects on track
Plenty of people don’t bother to read the current newspaper, let alone editions that were published over 100 years ago. But there’s a wealth of important historical information buried in these dusty old publications, assuming you can find a way to reliably digitize and index it all. You might think …read more
Continue reading OCR Reads Old Newspapers So We Don’t Have To
Working on embedded systems used to be easier. You had a microcontroller and maybe a few pieces of analog or digital I/O, and perhaps communications might be a serial port. Today, you have systems with networks and cameras and a host of I/O. Cameras are strange because sometimes you just …read more
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get caught up on the most interesting hacks of the past week. On this episode we take a deep dive into radiation-monitor projects, both Geiger tube and scintillator based, as well as LED cube projects that pack pixels onto six PCBs with parts …read more
In our info-obsessed culture, hackers are increasingly interested in ways to quantify the world around them. One popular project is to collect data about their home energy or water consumption to try and identify any trends or potential inefficiencies. For safety and potentially legal reasons, this usually has to be …read more
Continue reading Reading the Water Meter In A Literal Sense With An ESP8266
Seemingly handy PDF and OCR app turns out to be a privacy horror show. Continue reading Malicious App on Google Play Tallies 100 Million Downloads
Makers of Copyfish OCR software get taken on wild ride after code for its Chrome extension is stolen. Continue reading Copyfish Browser Extension Hijacked to Spew Spam
Every once in a while a project comes along with that magical power to consume your time and attention for many months. When you finally complete it, you feel sorry that you don’t have to do anything more.
What is so special about this Bingo ball reader? It may seem like an ordinary OCR project at first glance; a camera captures the image and OCR software recognizes the number. Simple as that. And it works without problems, like every simple gadget should.
But then again, maybe it’s not that simple. Numbers are scattered all over the ball, so they have …read more
