search

auerswal / ssocr

Seven Segment Optical Character Recognition
https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~auerswal/ssocr/index.html
GNU General Public License v3.0
202 stars 38 forks source link

How should I integrate this library with android #8

Closed pawarn closed 5 years ago

pawarn commented 5 years ago

I am working on Healthcare project where I want to read data from different devices using a mobile camera. Like HB meter.

So how should I use this with android?

auerswal commented 5 years ago

Well, it seems as if some POSIX compatible software can be compiled and used with Android. This may provide an avenue for ssocr on Android.

But a mobile phone or tablet does not provide a Unix-like user interface. You would probably need to write a completely different frontend that uses the camera view to select which image to send to ssocr. The flash LED might be of use in low-light situations.

A mobile phone resp. tablet UI might more or less continuously invoke ssocr on the currently viewed image and display the recognized value next to the camera image.

Anyway, that would be a significant undertaking as opposed to just using ssocr (a program for use on a Unix-like system) on Android (which is not Unix-like at all, despite using a fork of the Unix-like kernel Linux). The same holds for iOS (based on a fork of the Unix(-like) FreeBSD kernel with a non-Unix-like UI on top).