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