Handwriting recognition

[jsobel]

For a school project I have to make a program that can take an image with text on it and convert it to a string. I don't want anyone to do it for me but any help would be appreciated

ps. I can't use any external libraries

[JosAH]

For a school project I have to make a program that can take an image with text on it and convert it to a string. I don't want anyone to do it for me but any help would be appreciated

ps. I can't use any external libraries

Recognizing handwriting is a complicated issue; first you have to find lines of text or at least a single line in the direction of the flow of the written text; this alone isn't a trivial task. For the actual recognition have a look at BAMs (Bidirectional Associative Memories); those are a type of neural networks, very suitable for image recognition. A few names for Google are Kohonen and Hopfield.

kind regards,

Jos

[doWhile]

Not easy at all. Google "Optical Character Recognition"...there are many methods to go about doing so, most require machine learning (Neural networks) and/or statistical learning (PCA analysis)

[jsobel]

What about getting black and white pixels of an image and counting the numbers of pixels that match each letter

[doWhile]

What about getting black and white pixels of an image and counting the numbers of pixels that match each letter

As stated, its a lot more complex than that. What about fonts? What about Font size? What about text rotation? I presume - if this is for a class - the instructors wish it to be based upon what you learning in that class. What techniques did you learn that you can apply to the problem?

[jsobel]

We are doing a project on computer automation and it is due in 3 days

[JosAH]

We are doing a project on computer automation and it is due in 3 days

That isn't even enough time to read you into the subject. Try a Google search; there are a couple of Java implementations for optical character recognition; maybe you can use one as a black box.

kind regards,

Jos