Thread: Text/Symbol recognition or scan
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lardman is offline lardman
2010-07-06 , 13:01
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Originally Posted by Shiprat View Post
Hello, i have been looking around for an app that will let me point the n900 camera on a piece of text, either on a paper or on a screen, and thereby import it to the n900. I havent found one yet.
There is OCR code floating about (in fact there was a thread about this). Not sure how well it works, but might be something that could be added to mBarcode as a decoder.

Originally Posted by Shiprat View Post
Another feature i would like is instant following of links.
I was at a microsoft breakfast-meeting sorta thing where one guy gave me his card which had a 3d bar-code. When scanned it directly opened internet explorer and went to the url of his profile on some microsoft windows phone page.
Interesting. mBarcode will do this with barcodes (though not the 3D multicoloured ones (yet)).