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We’re using OCR to extract game metadata from Deep Rock Galactic videos. We’re now at the point where if we give our script two images… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 6: Automatically Detecting Loading / Ending Screens
Having limited output possibilities helps immensely We’ve been using pytesseract to help us OCR screen in Deep Rock Galactic to get metadata for YouTube uploads.… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 5: Refinements and Improving Accuracy
My path in the woods diverged, and I took them all We’ve been seeing if we can apply OCR to the loading screen of Deep… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 4: Exploring Approaches To Improve Detection
Last time, a bit of investigating showed that with a little cropping, tesseract can give good OCR results on a still of Deep Rock Galactic’s… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 3: Programming with pytesseract and pillow
Last time, we decided that Deep Rock Galactic is a game which is ripe for extracting video metadata from, thanks to it’s beautiful loading screen… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 2: Getting Started with tesseract
Why? I play games. Quite often I stream those games, and I also upload the footage to YouTube for my friends and subscribers to enjoy.… Read More »Automating YouTube Uploads with OCR
What a tangled web we weave… I was confused. Staring at a console window, wondering how I’d installed a program. The system package manager knew… Read More »Services, Servers, DomUs and Containers, Oh My!
I found an old 2.5″ hard drive that I didn’t recognise, and it was not keen to mount- it kept errorring out. So I figured… Read More »Terminal sharing via web? Use Gotty
Sometimes when confronted by a setback, people lose their cool. It happens. You have spent hours, perhaps days going over something in your head. You… Read More »Softly, Softly
I intended to include this in my post about reaching 100%, but that turned into a story about sneaking into a base armed with trousers.… Read More »Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Mini-Review