I am having trouble finding information of this subject

[icapture]

Hey guys (and girls),

 

I am having a bit of difficulty researching how one goes about extracting data from a video file. I would be using high definition go pro's to capture the footage, and need to extract words from various surfaces. For example walking down the road with a go-pro and being able to gather the text from each sign that I pass and export that into a database.

 

I am not looking for an simple answer to this question for I know it would be exhaustive. What I am looking for is maybe some direction on where to start looking. What terminology I type into Google to start my research? Are there any threads on here or other computer science / programming forums that could shed some light on this? Are there programs that have already been developed that could do this for me?

 

 

 

If you have any questions please ask.

[Sensei]

What terminology I type into Google to start my research?

 

OCR = Optical Character Recognition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition

Edited October 28, 2014 by Sensei

[icapture]

 

OCR = Optical Character Recognition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition

 

Sensi,

 

domo arigato

[fiveworlds]

Generally you find OCR in book readers like Adobe Acrobat and it only really converts word recognized fonts back with any real precision. Even so I have a whole test I tried to OCR and wound up re-typing the whole thing because it converted to word so badly.

For example walking down the road with a go-pro and being able to gather the text from each sign that I pass and export that into a database.

 

Which would be really cool but at the moment we would have to pull the video apart and look at the movie frame by frame.