Progress Report 2

Amity School of Engineering & Technology

DepartmentofComputerScienceandEngineering

WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT (WPR)

For the week :12^th May 2014 to 18^th May 2014       

WPR 2

Program: B.Tech. CSE (2012-14)Enrollment Number: A2305212207and A2305212211

Faculty Guide’s Name: Ms. ShilpiGuptName:Karan Razdanand RaghavGogia

                                                                                                                                                   

TITLE OF THE PROJECT:

Optical Charter Recognition

TARGETS FOR THE WEEK:

v  Study more about the image processing toolbox available in MATLAB.

v  Start looking for algorithms to help in processing images and reading alphabets from it.

v  Start building a basic database for image processing.

v  Start searching for open source dictionaries which would help with the spell check feature.

ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE WEEK:

      In the second week, we:

v Started the process of creating a basic database. This database would be used as a reference for the image being processed. Each letter will be recognized and matched from this database and hence be recognized. The more detailed and advanced the database, the more accurate the recognition is. For our initial starting database, the first decision to be made was about the font to be used. We decided upon one of the most widely used fonts, the ‘Ariel’ font. A simple database was creates based on this font system.

v Started looking for an open source Java API which would help us in the feature of spell checking. We arrived at 3 options; The Sentry Spell Checker, Jazzy and LanguageTool API. The first one was a commercial product and had to be bought, so we didn’t select it. The second one was an open source API which suited our needs but it was not under any current active development so we chose the third one, the LanguageTool API. After some research, we figured out it was the best option for us. The LaguageTool API provides us with spell checking capabilities and at the same time it makes it easy to add more powerful checks such as several grammatical checks.

v Started brushing up on our Java programming concepts.

v Came across the Genetic Algorithm. It can be used to increase the efficiency of the database and make the overall process much more accurate. But the concepts involved need some more studying in order to fully understand the algorithm and be able to use it to our advantage.

FUTURE WORK PLANS:

v  Study the algorithm in greater depth and try to fully understand all the concepts involved.

v  Expand our database and make it more advanced.

v  Further study the LanguageTool API.