Delphi DCR is a Digital Character Recognition program (more popular with Optical Character Recognition [OCR] name) to translate a typewritten or handwritten text in image format (like bitmap file) into an editable text format (like text file). It also has a feature to learn patterns from installed font or handwriting and classify them to specified classes using backpropagation neural net.
Note that the DCR has not been trainet yet. You have to train it first before it can be used to recognize any text. To train it, open the training form, select patterns from the font, character and size list (hold down shift or ctrl to select multiple items) or draw a pattern on the left picture box, press the Add button and then press the Train button.
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You are the only person who i know dat developed a Delphi OCR hehe... COngrats! I am planning to make an application about integratign an OCR application with a database. Example is if a user scans a registration forms, fields such as last name, first name etc will be stored automatically in the database fields depending on the coordinats specified by the user earlier. My question is: is this project possible and hard? Can you guys give me guides, tutorials and instructions to make my first step. Do i have to create my own OCR or can i just edit an existing one? If so ,where can i get one? Thanks.. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
7/30/2005 6:09:37 AM:
It doesn't recognize a thing unless you first add it and even then it screws up alot if it's just a bit different. Nice image processing not really character recognition. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Like I mentioned in the description, the program has not been trained yet. So it can't recognize anything yet until you train it. And the accuracy of the recognition is of course depend on the quality of the training set. For instance if you train it with just one font, it will good only to recognize that font, not others. So you have to train it with many fonts anc choose the training set that can represent all population. This is one of the problem on OCR area: choosing the right characters as a training set. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Nice Buddy ! Trainin runs a bit slow though .. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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