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ARIC - A custom AR headset solution to display IC data on a heads-up using ESP32, Rasp Pi, MQTT and dual TFTs
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Settle on optical character reconition api #1

Closed JasonMaher23 closed 1 year ago

JasonMaher23 commented 1 year ago

a character recognition API is required to be able to automatically read the text printed on the IC, without greatly increasing the scope of the project by having to create our own character recognition soluion

JasonMaher23 commented 1 year ago

Google cloud vision was easily able to detect and read a sample IC with a high ammout of accracy. It was also able to detect that it was a package with a high ammount of confidence

Henderson-C commented 1 year ago

Google cloud is perfect for this project. Although it is a paid service there is a trial that allows us to use the vision API for 3 months, more than enough time for this module to be assessed.

CURRENT API CHOICE IS VISION API FROM GOOGLE CLOUD

GeorgeSayles commented 1 year ago

having tested the OCR.bat script set up by @Henderson-C the OCR works extremely well, using an image from a phone camera I am happy to close this ticket

risk note: a phone camera may process the image to be clearer than the camera we have access to for the hardware of our project