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Project Proposal: Online Text, Formula or Diagram Entry by Drawing

Supervisor: Alan Sexton

Keywords: Document Image Analysis

Brief Description:

Online methods of optical character, formula and diagram recognition, online recognition are based on drawing on a pad device, a graphics tablet, a smartphone touch screen or with a mouse. Each stroke that that the user enters is analysed, recognised, corrected and displayed to the user, who can either accept what has been recognised or undo the change. Demonstrations of a commercial system that implements a number of tools of this type are available at: (http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/)

This project is to focus on one of these application domains (text, formulae or one diagram type, e.g.UML Class diagrams, Chemical diagrams, etc.) and implement a working system.

The system can be a Web application, using HTML5's Canvas element, CSS and Javascript for the GUI front end, it could be a smartphone application (Android preferred), or it could be a desktop application using Java or OCaml. Also possible is the use of a note taking device such as the Digimemo: http://www.digimemo.net/

Special Equipment: No special equipment requirements

Special Software: No special software requirements



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