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Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 5: Refinements and Improving Accuracy

Posted on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019Friday, July 3rd, 2020 by Rob Hallam

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. Last time we explored a number of approaches to get the output on the right track. We settled on using a second image from the end screen which had clearer […]

Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 4: Exploring Approaches To Improve Detection

Posted on Monday, October 21st, 2019Friday, July 3rd, 2020 by Rob Hallam

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 Rock Galactic to generate metadata for YouTube uploads for automation. Last time, we got a quick-and-dirty script that would pull out the various parts of one image successfully. Now we’d […]

Automating YouTube Uploads With OCR Part 2: Getting Started with tesseract

Posted on Saturday, October 19th, 2019Friday, July 3rd, 2020 by Rob Hallam

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 filled with information: For OCR we need look no further than tesseract! It’s open source, under development (since 1985 no less!) and easy to install in Arch. Let’s jump right […]

Automating YouTube Uploads with OCR

Posted on Friday, October 18th, 2019Friday, July 3rd, 2020 by Rob Hallam

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. However, each session of a game is one video, so I end up with many videos. In fact, Jefe, I’d say I have a plethora of videos. Since they are […]