By default, the basic Amazon AMI Image does not have an ftp server installed. If you’d like to quickly transfer some files and don’t already have an ftp server installed and configured, an alternative is to use putty’s PSCP ( Putty ‘s Secure Copy Client ) Download PSCP here: PuTTY Download Page On windows, here’s an example of its usage and options: PuTTY Secure Copy...

What is Python-tesseract ? Python-tesseract is a wrapper class for Tesseract OCR that allows any conventional image files (JPG, GIF ,PNG , TIFF and etc) to be read and decoded into readable languages. It uses the popular imaging library OpenCV to pre-process images before sending them to Tesseract-OCR. Unlike other existing solutions using the Python Imaging libary it does not create and store a temporary image file during conversion and...

Tesseract is probably one of the most accurate and popular open source OCR engine available today. It was originally developed by HP, but it is now maintained by Google who have made many significant improvements. Combined with the Leptonica Image Processing Library it can read a wide variety of image formats and convert them to text in over 60 languages. This post aims to deal with the installation of Tesseract-OCR on a Amazon EC2...

The following blog post has been written to provide a little insight into the final year project that I undertook while at the University of Limerick, Ireland. I have only provided the Abstract, and the results of the Immersive video viewer implementation. With time I will add the details of the success of the Immersive video (mirror pyramid) camera system developed and the resulting immersive video captured. Abstract Immersive video is...