Problem with recognizing numbers with easyocr - opencv

I have been trying to read numbers using easyocr but depending on the font, it gives different result. For example: For the numbers in the first line, it shows correct output, but the one at the bottom, it doesn't read 0, 1 and 7 correctly. Is there a way to solve the problem?
I have tried some morphological operations, blur, binary conversion, etc. None worked for the font at the bottom.

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vips - How to create justified text?

I'm using the vips library for manipulating some images, specifically its Lua binding, lua-vips, and I'm trying to create justified text images. I guess there is no available function in vips to do this directly, so I was wondering how to come up with an algorithm for that.
My first idea was to parse the text to be justified using a known algorithm for justification, but using image width of each separate word instead of number of characters to measure empty space. Then, for each of the lines, place the text images of each word next to each other, adding necessary space as black pixels between them.
However I couldn't figure out how to check line height, as it isn't necessarily equal to the text image height, so I'm not sure I'm using a good approach.
git master libvips supports justification now, and this feature should be in the upcoming libvips 8.8 (due spring 2019).
Use it like this:
$ vips text x.png "hello world sdkj hsdfkj herqkjh wehf" --width 100 --justify
To make:
Or from Lua:
x = vips.Image.text("hello world sdkj hsdfkj herqkjh wehf", {width = 100, justify = true})

Detect electronic circuit elements based on images

I'm trying to detect elements from an electonic circuit based on binary images. Therefore I have to separate it into parts. Each part should describe one element, e.g. a resistor or a capacity. I also want to detect branchpoints, where multiple line (or multiple elements) are connected.
The following picture shows an example circuit, which contains two resistors and two branch-points: Example Circuit with two resistors:
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Thats what I want my program to detect automatically.
I already implemented an algorithm which is able to detect line segments and branchpoints, when the input-image contains lines with 1px linewidth.
The problem is transforming an image into this 1px linemodel. Some like this:
Does anyone know how to do it?
Thanks in advance!
Niklas
In Matlab you can use the following code
% Read image
I = double(imread('circit.png'));
I = I(:,:,1);
% Run thining opreation
IThin = bwmorph(~I,'thin',Inf);
% Show image
imshow(IThin)
And the resulted image is:

How to remove non-periodic lines from binary image

Example Image
I want to remove the lines (shown in RED color) as they are out of order. Lines shown in black color are repeating at same period (approximately). Period is not known beforehand. Is there any way of deleting non-periodic lines( shown in red color) automatically?
NOTE: Image is binary ( back & while).. lines shown in red color only for illustration.
Of course there is any way. There is almost always some way to do something.
Infortunately you have not provided any particular problem. The entire thing is too broad to be answered here.
To help you getting started: (I highly recommend you start with pen, paper and your brain)
Detect the lines -> google or think, there are many standard ways to detect lines in an image. if you don't have noise in your binary image its trivial.
find any aequidistant sets -> think
delete the rest -> think ( you know what is good so everything else has to go away)
I assume, your lines are (almost) vertical.
The following should work
turn the image to a column sum histogram
try a Fourier transformation on the signal (potentially padding the image appropriately)
pick the maximum/peak from the Fourier spectrum as your base period
If you need the lines rather than the position of the lines, generate a mask with lines at appropriate intervals (as determined by your analysis before) and apply to the image.

How to count red blood cells/circles in Octave 3.8.2

I have an image with a group of cells and I need to count them. I did a similar exercise using bwlabel, however this one is a bit more challenging because there are some little cells that I don't want to count. In addition, some cells are on top of each other. I've seem some MATLAB examples online but they all involved functions that aren't available. Do you have any ideas how to separate the overlapping cells?
Here's the image:
To make it clearer: Please help me count the number of red blood cells (which have a circular shape) like so:
The image is in grayscale but I think you can distinguish which ones are red blood cells. They have a distinctive biconcave shape... Everything else doesn't matter. But to be more specific here is an image with all the things that I want to ignore/discard/not count highlighted in red.
The main issue is the overlapping of cells.
The following is an ImageJ macro to do this (which is free software too). I would recommend you use ImageJ (or Fiji), to explore this type of stuff. Then, if you really need it, you can write an Octave program to do it.
run ("8-bit");
setAutoThreshold ("Default");
setOption ("BlackBackground", false);
run ("Convert to Mask");
run ("Fill Holes");
run ("Watershed");
run ("Analyze Particles...", "size=100-Infinity exclude clear add");
This approach gives this result:
And it is point and click equivalent as:
Image > Type > 8-bit
Image > Adjust > Threshold
select "Default" and untick "dark background" on the threshold dialogue. Then click "Apply".
Process > Binary > Fill holes
Process > Binary > Watershed
Analyze > Analyze particles...
7 Set "100-Infinity" as range of valid particle size on the "Analyze particles" dialogue
On ImageJ, if you have a bianry image, watershed actually performs the distance transform, and then the watershed.
Octave has all the functions above except watershed (I plan on implementing it soon).
If you can't use ImageJ for your problem (why not? It can run in headless mode too), then an alternative is to get the area of each object, and if too high, then assume it's multiple cells. It kinda of depends on your question and if can generate a value for average cell size (and error).
Another alternative is to measure the roundness of each object identified. Cells that overlap will be less round, you can identify them that way.
It depends on how much error are you willing to accept on your program output.
This is only to help with "noise" but why not continue using bwlabel and try using bwareaopen to get rid of small objects? It seems the cells are pretty large, just set some size threshold to get rid of small objects http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/46398-removing-objects-which-have-area-greater-and-lesser-than-some-threshold-areas-and-extracting-only-th
As for overlapping cells, maybe setting an upperbound for the size of a single cell. so when you have two cells overlapping, it will classify this as "greater than one cell" or something like that. so it at least acknowledges the shape, but can't determine exactly how many cells are there

iOS White point/white balance adjustment examples/suggestions

I am trying to change the white point/white balance programmatically. This is what I want to accomplish:
- Choose a (random) pixel from the image
- Get color of that pixel
- Transform the image so that all pixels of that color will be transformed to white and all other colors shifted to match
I have accomplished the first two steps but the third step is not really working out.
At first I thought that, as per Apples documentation CIWhitePointAdjust should be the thing to accomplish exactly that but, although it does change the image it is not doing what I would like/expect it to do.
Then it seemed that CIColorMatrix should be something that would help me to shift the colors but I was (and still am) at a loss of what to input to it with those pesky vectors.
I have tried almost everything (same RGB values on all vectors, corresponding values (R for R, etc.) on each vector, 1 - corresponding value, 1 + corresponding value, 1/corresponding value. RGB values and different (1 - x, 1 + x, 1 / x).
I have also come across CITemperatureAndTint that, as per Apples documentation should also help, but I have not yet figured out how to convert from RGB to temperature and tint. I have seen algorithms and formulas about converting from RGB to Temperatur, but nothing regarding tint. I will continue experimenting with this a little though.
Any help much appreciated!
After a lot of experimenting and mathematics I finally got my app to work almost the way I want.
If anyone else will find themselves facing a similar problem then here is what I did.
I ended up using CITemperatureAndTint filter supplying a color in Kelvins calculated from the selected pixels RGB value and user suppliable tint value.
To get to Kelvins I:
- firstly converted RGB to XYZ using the D65 illuminant (ie Daylight).
- then converted from XYZ to Yxy. Both of these conversions were made using the algorithms found from EasyRGB.
- I then calculated Kelvins from Yxy using the McCamry's formula I found in a paper here.
These steps got the image in the ballpark but not quite there, so I added a UISlider for the user to supply the tint value ranging from -100 to 100.
With selecting a point that should be white and choosing values from the positive side of the tint scale (all the images I on my phone tend to be more yellow) an image can now be converted to (more) neutral colors. Yey!
I supplyed the calculated temperature and user chosen tint as inputNeutral vector values.
6500 (D65 daylight) and 0 as inputTargetNeutral vector values to CITTemperatureAndTint filter.

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