Braille OCR development

Question

hi evry1, ive to develop an OCR for Braille language. Incase if u dont know about Braille; it's used by the blinds. Each character is a combination of 6 dots. what i need is a system that can recognize these characters from a scanned image of the original Braille text. The real problem is the denoising and the segmantation. If any ones interested, i can upload an image sample as well. My last request is to inquire about which language to use; VB.NET or C#. Ive heard that C# is faster for image processing as it uses "unsafe blocks". is this true? I would really appreciate any help on this. thanx in advance!

Answer 1

Actually there wont be scanned PICS. Only one scanned pic has to be processed at a time; as soon as it gets scanned. So i dont think that a database will be required. The application that i've to develop will have its own scanner interfacing. Therefore the scanned image will be created by the system itself. I dont even have to save it. i just have to process it and convert it to text. If u need more details about this project, u can visit: http://www.braillespeaker.cjb.net and check out the proposal. thanx 4 your thoughts anyways!

Answer 2

Did you place all the scanned picture in a database i.e. in Access? It is better to access those pictures in the database rather than their filenames. This is a safe blocks because it doesnt access the file entirely. Accessing its filename may modify the picture unnoticeable.