Just trying to find someone who would be capable of the following: Using something like: http://www.phpclasses.org/phpocr To read what is in an image like: http://www.photosales.co.nz/details.php?gid=323&pid=36947 And for it to pull the numbers out, and include them in the keywords automatically. Is this possible, if so, how long to do, and how much?
It is possible to have the script recognize numbers on an image. But what numbers do you like to recognize on your sample photo - "88" on the boat?? If all the images are the same quality / type, such script can be adjusted to recognize pretty well. If images are all different and numbers are vary in size and position - the % of errors might be too high.
For us, we would be using it for the likes of runners, so it would normally just be black numbers on a white background. It is really just a thought, as we are going in to a lot more of the event side of things, and I am trying to make this as simple as possible. At the moment we have to enlarge each image to see the number in the backend, it is possible to process approx 400 per hour, but if there was a script to do it, then that would be great. This is an example of the kind of image: So there, we can see: 22139, 6739, 7029, 29336 as an example - we would want them to be included in our keywords.