Tool for building OCR

Used to take a 7-segment display as an image and convert to a character
using OCR built by students.

Author: DerekBabb

DigitReader.java

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+/**
+ * @author Derek Babb <[email protected]>
+ * @version 1.0
+ * @since 7-17-2013
+ *
+ * DigitReader is an interface that is used with ScoreMaker to test an 
+ * optical character recognition algorithm for a scoreboard.
+ *
+ */
+
+public interface DigitReader
+{
+  /**
+   * setImage will accept a PictureEdit object.  The image should be saved within the class
+   * so other methods may "read" the digit.
+   *
+   * @param digitPic is the picture of a single digit from a scoreboard.
+   */
+  public void setImage(PictureEdit digitPic);
+ 
+  /**
+   * getDigit will return the digit that the OCR algorithm beleives is the digit from the image
+   * that has been previously loaded.
+   *
+   * @return a number 0-9 for the digit, return -1 if it cannot be read.
+   */
+  public int getDigit();
+  
+  /**
+   * Each OCR should have a name for the purpose of listing in the menu.
+   *
+   * @return name of the OCR.
+   */
+  public String getName();
+}

ExampleOCR.java

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+public class ExampleOCR implements DigitReader
+{
+  PictureEdit digitPic; 
+  
+  public void setImage(PictureEdit pic)
+  {
+    digitPic = pic;  //load the the input image into the digitPic field.
+  }
+  
+  public int getDigit()
+  {
+    //This is the method you should process the image.
+    
+    return (int)(Math.random() * 10);
+  }
+  
+  public String getName()
+  {
+    return "Example OCR";
+  }
+}