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by kylefoley2000
04 Feb 2014, 07:13
Forum: Cameras and Electronics
Topic: sodering wires
Replies: 1
Views: 3867

sodering wires

I opened up the insulation on my wires and ones red and the other is black. How do I know which one to cut and attach to the momentary switch?
by kylefoley2000
11 Sep 2012, 18:08
Forum: OCR/Optical Character Recognition
Topic: improve contrast of images
Replies: 1
Views: 9485

improve contrast of images

I noticed with preview I was able to improve the photos I take of the book pages. The problems is I have to go through one by one and adjust the parameters. I was able with mac's automater to make this process slightly less tedious but the process still took about 25 minutes, to adjust 80 images. If...
by kylefoley2000
26 Dec 2011, 03:39
Forum: OCR/Optical Character Recognition
Topic: i want to improve my OCR
Replies: 2
Views: 7788

i want to improve my OCR

I was working with preview and I saw that i could alter my image by increasing sharpness, contrast, that sort of thing. my ocr does a reasonably good job. it mostly makes a mistake when the lines are slightly warped. scan tailor sort of does a good job in correcting that but it is not 100%. ironical...
by kylefoley2000
07 Sep 2011, 17:41
Forum: Software
Topic: can't load sdm onto my sd card
Replies: 1
Views: 3612

can't load sdm onto my sd card

I'm trying to load sdm onto my sd card and it's not working. I've made a youtube video to show you what i'm doing. it's only 1:40 long http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHC-EG6dID8 <iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XHC-EG6dID8?hl=en&fs=1&quo...
by kylefoley2000
24 Aug 2011, 13:39
Forum: Scan Tailor
Topic: ScanTailor for OSX is here
Replies: 60
Views: 106766

Re: ScanTailor for OSX is here

when i do ouput and i select on experimental, it crashes too often. does it really dewarp if i don't select experimental? i don't see much different.
by kylefoley2000
05 Aug 2011, 15:27
Forum: Scan Tailor
Topic: scan tailor is so amazing!!!
Replies: 3
Views: 5851

scan tailor is so amazing!!!

I really want to thank Tulon for writing this amazing software. I'm using Abbyy to scan my books and although it does a good job about one in every 4 pages, the last 4 lines will usually be garbled because the lines are warped. but with scan tailor i'm proud to say that that problem is completely el...
by kylefoley2000
04 Aug 2011, 19:40
Forum: Scan Tailor
Topic: are there any instructions?
Replies: 1
Views: 3990

are there any instructions?

Thanks Toulon for creating this software, however, I can't use it and I can find no instructions anywhere. I think that would seriously help. Maybe even a youtube video. I don't even know what DPI is. Thanks
by kylefoley2000
13 Jun 2011, 23:11
Forum: Cameras and Electronics
Topic: best setting for camera (too much light)
Replies: 3
Views: 4874

Re: best setting for camera (too much light)

i was wrong. it was the fact that i rotated the images first, before i fed them into the OCR. that's what did the trick. In any case, it looks like i'm up to 99% now, which is where I want to be. i still have to figure out how to OCR the whole set in one try or program it to do it while i'm asleep.
by kylefoley2000
13 Jun 2011, 22:35
Forum: Cameras and Electronics
Topic: best setting for camera (too much light)
Replies: 3
Views: 4874

Re: best setting for camera (too much light)

if i put them in the center of the page then that will literally blind the OCR so that it can't even read the letters. you can see in those photos that the more light there is, the less the OCR reads. but that's ok. i set the shutter speed to 1/3 a second, that seems to really help. i think i might ...
by kylefoley2000
13 Jun 2011, 17:56
Forum: Cameras and Electronics
Topic: best setting for camera (too much light)
Replies: 3
Views: 4874

best setting for camera (too much light)

One of my camera's is just barely on the edge of functioning 100%. it will usually garble the last 4 lines of a book. i think the problem is with the lighting. when there's too much light, that blocks out some of the letters, when there's too little light, then the OCR won't be able to read some of ...