EliteOCR

EliteOCR is a Python script that runs optical character recognition on screenshots from Elite: Dangerous commodities market.

Prerequisites

EliteOCR is capable of reading the entries in Elite: Dangerous markets screenshots. Best results are achieved with screenshots of 3840 by 2160 pixel (4K) or more. You can make screenshots in game by pressing F10. You find them usually in C:\Users\USERNAME\Pictures\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous Screenshots made with ALT+F10 have lower recognition rate!

Owners of Nvidia video cards can use DSR technology to increase the resolution for screenshots and revert it back to normal without leaving the game.

Usage

Run EliteOCR.exe Click "+" and select your screenshots. Select multiple files by holding CTRL or add them one by one. Select one file and click the OCR button. Check if the values have been recognised properly. Optionally correct them or choose alternative from the drop down list. Click on "Add and Next" to continue to next line. You can edit the values in the table by double clicking on the entry.

After processing one screenshot you can choose the next file in the list and click the ORC Button again. Should there be a corrupted entry, you can click "Skip" to continue to next line without adding current one to the list. Duplicate entries are by default filtered out. To change this behaviour go to Settings.

When finished click on "Export" to save your results to a csv-file(separated by ; ). CSV can be opened by most spreadsheet editors like Excel, LibreOffice Calc etc. or alternatively text editors.

Dependencies to run from source

Requirements

Python 2.7

https://www.python.org/downloads/

Numpy

http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.9.1/

OpenCV

http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-win/2.4.10/

Goto opencv/build/python/2.7 folder.

Copy cv2.pyd to C:/Python27/lib/site-packages.

Python-Tesseract

https://bitbucket.org/3togo/python-tesseract/downloads/

######PyQt4

http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download

qimage2ndarray

pip install qimage2ndarray

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/qimage2ndarray

Openpyxl

pip install openpyxl

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openpyxl

Ezodf

pip install ezodf

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ezodf

Lxml

pip install lxml

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml

python-Levenshtein

pip install python-Levenshtein

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-Levenshtein/

Run EliteOCR.py

To create a standalone exe file

pip install pyinstaller

pyinstaller --onedir EliteOCR.py