Brain-teaser: OCR in RR

[Stephen Barncard]

I'd make an Xcmd to do the bitwork to obtain the image:
(tiffWidth, tiffHeight info should be in the headers of the tiff file)

getThePattern(tiffData, tiffWidth, tiffHeight, blockwidth, blockHeight, offset)

which would return rawData of blockWidth and blockHeight

If you have to just determine if a barcode is there, then that should 
be fairly easy -- compare start/sync bars at the beginning and end.

If you have to read the actual barcode numbers , I'd create another Xcmd.
these guys might do it: http://www.undu.com/DN960501/00000005.htm

If you do all of the reading and conversion in Transcript, you should 
probably use arrays for speed. And prepare to futz around for a while.

quite a challenge. Nice project.

sqb


>On 5/26/03 1:26 AM, "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
>
>>  Recently, tkuypers at pandora.be wrote:
>>
>>>  We need to do a "small" project which involves reading a bunch of 
>>>tiff files,
>>>  analyze a small part of it and rename the file according to the 
>>>result of the
>>>  analysis...
>>>  The part to analyze is fixed (right top corner) and the data we 
>>>can expect is
>  >> a code-39 barcode.
>