wooly

I think i posted this message in the wrong forum earlier so here goes again ;)

Im a newbie so excuse the syntax if its all wrong

I am interested in using a jitter matrix? (or anything else that will work?) to identify realtime changing 'images' of numbers (I don't have actual files or list data - only images ) and then 'recognize' the actual numerical values of these numbers then use them as a data stream inside maxmsp

Ive spent some time reading the manuals to get a basic feel, so I thought if images of individual integers or floating point numbers were loaded as a list in jitter and er 'tagged' with the actual value of the integer/fp numbers themselves could a jitter matrix match the live image feed of integers/fp numbers to data representing their values?

It would be great for someone to help with an informed response.

I am trying to figure out whether Max5/jitter would be used to do this before buying it.

images of integers and fp numbers to values?