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Read numbers from water meters

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 6:50 pm
by CrisRich
I finally came up with an idea for an app that I would like to create as a beginner to learn how to use LiveCode:

Read and recognize the numbers from water and electricity meters and then use them for different purposes that I still have to define in detail.

My question: does anyone here know how to implement the reading and recognition of the numbers on the meters with the camera on iOS and Android smartphones? Or suggestions on where I can find information on that?

Re: Read numbers from water meters

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:39 pm
by richmond62
You can take pictures of the meters using this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/278 ... p-computer

But as far as I know there are no OCR capabilities inwith LiveCode, so
to achieve that you would have to leverage external stuff as well as LiveCode.