Using a Mobile Device's Camera!!!!

[ash_nota]

Hello,
I am an A level Computer Science Student (UK) and recently I have had a brilliant whilst studying the wonders of Scanning (OMR, OCR & MICR). It is a idea that is both useful and original and its great for me because I really want to push my own boundaries and develop a cross platform mobile application that could help me in the journey towards a AI & Computer Science PhD

I have a few questions;
>how would I go about programming a mobile app (USING LIVECODE) that uses the camera device on a phone to identify the
positions of shapes and symbols on a piece of paper and then display what those positions represent at the same time?
>are there any tutorials available and if not are there any tutorials you could send to me regarding the subject?
>if at the unlikely event the livecode community cannot help me where do I go for advice or expert input?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
Regards
Ashley Stevens

[Simon]

Hi Ashley,
Welcome to the forum!
Here is a start:
http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/c/16770
Threshold and edge detection I think you'll be interested in, but you should work through them all in order.
There are no direct tutorials for things like OCR.
imageData (in the dictionary) is you new BFF I think.

I think image recognition pushes the boundaries of all computers not just programmers

Simon

[ash_nota]

Thanks a lot Simon this is brilliant, definatley helped me!

Thanks for your support