Software Learning ~ How do I teach software to read?

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How would I go about teaching software to read text? Like the ones post offices use.

I heard you can feed a program examples of letters and it will learn to read. I.E. You show it 1000's of pictures of different "A"'s and it will be able to recognize them itself.

Posted 11-Feb-11 12:23pm

klixxx

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After searching google for a different term, I realize it's called OCR.
Does anyone have experience in using it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition#OCR_software[^]

Edit: Just found it!
Creating Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications using Neural Networks[^]

Posted 11-Feb-11 12:26pm

klixxx

Updated 11-Feb-11 12:28pm

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Yusuf 12-Feb-11 8:07am

See my answer. There was plenty of hints.

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Yusuf · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-11T12:33:00

Solution 3

Look don't fool yourself. At the end of the day computers are just computers. You can program them but not teach them. Period. Of course your can program them with some sort of AI, but the as of the current age, there is a limit as to what they can learn by themselves.

Internally all charters are represented in bytes and it is not hard to "teach" it which is which. You can also do OCR (optical character recognition). Given some sort of input the computer can detect what character it is. Also there is Text-To-Speech, in which given word it can spell (talk it out) with some training.

Now, you can combine all these. But that does not mean the computer is going to read the book and understand it and learn new stuff from it. Reading is one thing , learning is entirely different thing.

Posted 11-Feb-11 12:33pm

Yusuf

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 11-Feb-11 20:26pm

[Moved from OP's "answer"]:
What are you talking about?

You can easily teach computers now-a-days.
Follow the link I posted.

Yusuf 12-Feb-11 8:05am

And how is the link you provided different from what I said. Read what I said one more time. I did say they can do OCR. What I did not agree with the OP is the term "TEACH". OCR is not teaching, is it?

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 12-Feb-11 12:56pm

I moved that comment from an answer OP made. There is no sense in replying to me. OP made that comment but made an answer out of it so I moved it. Hence the [Moved from OP's answer]. :)

Yusuf 12-Feb-11 13:00pm

Oops, did not notice that.

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 12-Feb-11 13:03pm

No problem! Uni-Voter has been countered! 5+ :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Feb-11 21:26pm

Yusuf, this is decent talking, I like it.
No wonder some idiot voted "1" for this answer: the weak minded get furious out of such things.
I voted 5,
--SA

Yusuf 12-Feb-11 8:04am

Thanks, I don't care about votes. It is irrelevant and over time all the uni-votes gets wiped out by other votes. Thanks for voting me +5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Feb-11 21:59pm

OP say: "You can easily teach computers now-a-days."
How illiterate talking can be! This is all about failure to understand different meanings of the words. "Teach" is rather a metaphor here, to be used with care. It is used as a part of "tuning" of the recognitions system. "Easily"... "When God wants to punish someone for ignorance, He gives him a computer."

Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-11T12:29:00

Solution 2

You may want to checkout this site: Open Source OCR Libraries[^]. They are linking to some open source OCR libraries.

Cheers!

Posted 11-Feb-11 12:29pm

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

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