[maemo-developers] Gsoc Idea Barcode Reader

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Simon Pickering
<S.G.Pickering at bath.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Also, i think we should look at GOCR as the alternate toolkit
>> that can be used for the project.
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> Looks like that project has been renamed to Conjecture now
> (http://www.corollarium.com/conjecture/).

Reading the EAN-13 barcode should not require to complicated ocr software
I think the basic is to draw 3 lines over an image , make it black white
and look for known patterns (first only a series of black white and
then looking at the length).

Do you think I am underestimating this part of the problem?

Kees

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