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Ask Slashdot: Automated Tool To OCR CCGs Like Magic: the Gathering?
An anonymous reader writes I buy massive collections of trading card games, Magic:The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon, Weiss Schwarts, Cardfight Vanguard, etc, etc. And I've gotten the process fairly streamlined as far as price checking, grading, sorting, etc. Part of my process involves using higher-quality web cams positioned over the top of the cards which are in a stack. I keep a cam window on the screen to show a larger, brighter version of the card. What I'm wondering: Is there is an OCR solution out there that will look at the same spot on the screen, capture, ocr, dump to clipboard, etc.? I've tried several open source solutions but none of them quite fit my needs. What I'd really like is to be able to hit a hotkey, and have my clipboard populated with the textual data of the graphics in a pre-set x,y window range. All this should be done via a hotkey. I may be asking for a lot, but then again, I'm sure someone out there has had need of this type of set-up before. Anyone have any recommendations?
But I just wanted to say that you are perhaps the biggest nerd I have ever been aware of. I mean that as a sign of respect.
OMG WTF TLA OCR CCGs?
This. He might be looking for a single monolithic program, but his problem is actually completely solvable with clever usage of UNIX. It's the perfect platform for creating a customized pipeline for this kind of task.
Also in 2 days it will be integrated into systemd.
Which means it was already part of emacs.
In Emacs: Ctrl + M + T + G. Also runs a Monte Carlo on the last 3000 cards scanned and outputs the optimal 60 card deck and registers you in the nearest FNM.