[tech] [ucc] A Challenge

[Sam Moore]

Hi,

David [SLX] and I started doing stuff on this on Sunday.

There are some scripts in /webcamrestore/scripts on motsugo.
"get_data.py" creates an image containing only the timestamp. It is scaled 
up and made black and white.
"george.sh" (don't ask) uses get_data.py to make timestamps for each 
webcam image, and then uses gocr (tesseract didn't work) to make strings. 
It copies the images using Bob's patented directory structure. gocr seems 
to get most/some of the camera name right*

There are some test results on clownfish:/root/webcamrestore/unjumbled

Getting everything working fast/accurately enough to actually be useful is 
left as an excercise for someone else.

*It also gets some of it wrong

[SZM]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, James Andrewartha wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Andrew Adamson wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately the lost+found directory also contains user data so somebody
>> from wheel has to extract the images to a different directory before
>> people go playing with them. I think this is as simple as extracting any
>> files owned by the webcam user.
>
> Given the timestamps are correct, if there's no more than one camera with
> missing images during that hour, we should be able to move them to the
> correct location.
>
> Note that the restored /services/webcam/archive has some directories where
> subdirectories are numbered correctly but are jpeg files, not directories.
> So it might we worth sanity-checking the restored files too.
>
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