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[sebaka]

hey guys...

i have to develop an application that will use scanned bills in order to extract the information in them (sums, total payments...) an insert them into a file (maybe excel) - because it takes a lot of time to do this by hand, an it's also error prone. I was wondering, whether this is feasable... Also, would you sugest writing the entire application, or using a OCR scanner that would provide the text recognition means...

thanks...

[WingedPanther]

Is it feasible? Yes. Is it even close to easy? No.

An OCR scanner will help a lot, but if the bills aren't in a consistent format, you're going to have a tough time getting the data correctly.

[Sinipull]

Developing one right now (in Java), that can understand separate handwritten letters. It analyzes pictures and learns letter's structure and remembers it. It's much harder than i thought in the beginning, as program must recognize and make difference between horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines, which vary in thickness in different points. Currently it reads every pixel as part of the letter, which is not white (255,255,255).