Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Martin McCormick wrote: > The tesseract utility flawlessly converted the sample jpg > in to ASCII text so I tried that > other Linux box's VGA port. This certainly looks like not much > of anything but I was happy to get it: > > Debian GNU/Linux 10 audios tty > > audio3 login: [43431.2943

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-12 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > fswebcam is a package that captures images from V4L2 devices. > It's command-line driven and has a few useful features like > resizing, averaging multiple frames, and skipping early frames > for devices that take a while to focus. It writes JPEG or PNG. > > Remember to make y

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-09 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > Martin was just sense-of-wondering at modern technology. I'm > guessing his eventual project will snap frames for OCR on > demand, then send the output through a braille terminal or > a speech synthesizer. Our messages basically crossed due to the time lag here betwee

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread Martin McCormick
deloptes writes: > I still don't get it how you want to capture and process video to text to > audio - perhaps deduplicate frame content etc. - how many frames per > second > do you want to process, cause I did not get this with the 4Mhz and how it > is relevant. I was thinking your display is ru

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread Dan Ritter
deloptes wrote: > > I still don't get it how you want to capture and process video to text to > audio - perhaps deduplicate frame content etc. - how many frames per second > do you want to process, cause I did not get this with the 4Mhz and how it > is relevant. I was thinking your display is run

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > Thank you very much.  I started using unix-like OS's 30 > years ago in June but the digital video field is new to me so I > still have a lot of learning to do. > > As an electronics and amateur radio enthusiast, I am > astounded at how fast that A/D converter has to work

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > UVC means USB Video Class. The Video For Linux 2 driver system > should recognize it as a V4L2 device. > > fswebcam is a package that captures images from V4L2 devices. > It's command-line driven and has a few useful features like > resizing, averaging multiple frames, and sk

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Martin McCormick wrote: > The video capture device is an Epifan AVIO-HD video > digitizer and one of it's modes is VGA conversion with all video > sent in the .uvc or webcam format. > > The part I don't know yet is what needs to happen to > convert .uvc in to something that looks li

.uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread Martin McCormick
I am trying to fit all the pieces together in a project I need to do which is to capture VGA video text screens and turn them in to ASCII text via OCR. The OCR program is meant for people to feed in video from a camera or flat-bed scanner which will process the images and decode te