Information
input to
modern computer artifacts more and more leave the traditional keyboard
for
the
benefit of easier, smaller or faster input solutions. Some concrete
examples of
such artifact are small hand held computers, where Palm and the
character
recognition pen, C-Pen are the most popular ones. These artifacts
involve
classify handwritten and printed characters, such as letters and
numbers.
The recognition (extraction and classifying) of printed characters is
called
OCR (optical character recognition). OCR-software is also often
delivered
together with a scanner used to convert printed document to computer
files.
Your assignment
is to implement an automatic OCR-solution. This means that you should
extract
written numbers and classify these. Your system should take an image
with a
number combination as input and return the interpreted text as numbers.
The
system must be called by the following syntax:
>>s=OCR(Image);
where Image
is the matrix that is obtain when the following command is used
>>[Image,Facit]=ReadNumberImage(P,N);
and s is a
string
The
complete assignment specification is found here.