Re: [tesseract-ocr] Emoticons?

2015-05-23 Thread Allistair
When you train tesseract you provide it with loads and loads of text in the font/language of your choice. It then turns this into outlines effectively that it can match to incoming images with text. Now I am not 100% sure but I am quite certain that if you attempted to train Tesseract with a bunch

Re: [tesseract-ocr] Emoticons?

2015-05-23 Thread SRguy
That is FASCINATING, but since the emoticons to which I'm referring are already represented in Unicode wouldn't I just train T. in the conventional manner (for which I was hoping there were already files available )? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [tesseract-ocr] Emoticons?

2015-05-23 Thread Allistair
OpenCV is a computer vision library. It has advanced features for computer vision in general. If you think about it, a frame of a video is just an image. So no, it does not need to be used for video, it can be used on static images also. http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/imgproc/histograms/te

Re: [tesseract-ocr] Emoticons?

2015-05-23 Thread SRguy
Isn't that a library for video processing? I'm a little confused... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.

Re: [tesseract-ocr] Emoticons?

2015-05-21 Thread Allistair C
Use opencv pattern matching Sent from my iPhone > On 22 May 2015, at 02:35, SRguy wrote: > > Might Tesseracts be trained to recognize emoticons, such as the new iPhone > ones? > Thanks. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group.

[tesseract-ocr] Emoticons?

2015-05-21 Thread SRguy
Might Tesseracts be trained to recognize emoticons, such as the new iPhone ones? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr