Cycling 74 » Topic: Converting an image of text into real text. http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/feed Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:38:45 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-53274 <![CDATA[Converting an image of text into real text.]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-53274 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:06:50 +0000 Patrick Keenan Hi,

Does anyone know if it is possible to convert a pdf or any other image with text in it, into a text file within max? Or would this be better done externally?

Thanks, Patrick

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-191614 <![CDATA[Re: Converting an image of text into real text.]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-191614 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:23:54 +0000 EMV That’s called OCR, or text recognition. There are commercial, specialised programs that can do this. Saying that building your own text recognitino algorithm in Max is a challenge would be an understatement.
On the other hand, the cv library can do simple image recognition, so for very simple and clear images (say two large characters on a white background or something) you could use that.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-191615 <![CDATA[Re: Converting an image of text into real text.]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-191615 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:59:13 +0000 Patrick Keenan Hi,

Yeah i thought using a commercial program would probably be the best route.

I would like to get the senders name and subject header of e-mails i receive automatically into max every time one is received. I was thinking of taking screen grabs. Anyone have any better ideas about how to get this info into max?

Cheers, Patrick

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-191616 <![CDATA[Re: Converting an image of text into real text.]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-191616 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:43:44 +0000 Luke Woodbury Not sure if this will do the job, but there’s an mxj object called net.mail.recv which apparently reads messages from an email server. Never tried it though.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-191617 <![CDATA[Re: Converting an image of text into real text.]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-191617 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:54 +0000 Patrick Keenan Hi,

I cant seem to get net.mail.recv or net.mail.send to open. I have tried instantiating them from the mxj object and have also tried opening there help files from the the javahelp folder but they just crash max. Every other mxj object seems to work apart from these too!

Does it open for you scatalogic?

Patrick

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-191618 <![CDATA[Re: Converting an image of text into real text.]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/converting-an-image-of-text-into-real-text/#post-191618 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:01:26 +0000 Luke Woodbury Doesn’t crash Max for me, but doesn’t work straight off and at the bottom of the help patch it says:
“This class requires the free JavaMail and the JavaBean Activation Framework libraries. Installation instructions can be found in mxj tutorial number 9.”

This thread has a bit about it too:

http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=28612

And searching forums for net.mail finds several more. Good luck!

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