enxio27 wrote:
Your Sudoku Grabber is SOOOOO AMAZING!! I assume that it will work from a PDF image, or even on a Web site?
It will read JPG/BMP/TIF/PNG/GIF natively. For anything else, as long as you can display the image using PDF reader or website or whatever, you can use the
Grab function to get it into the program.
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Can it interpret jigsaw, greater-than/less-than, odd-even, etc., or does that part have to be done manually?
It's pretty dumb in that respect at the moment. It will look for a regular grid pattern only. There are two options for Futoshiki puzzles, those with the greater/less symbols built into the cell border and those where the cells are separate boxes with the greater/less symbols in between them. It does
try to recognise when there is a Diagonal variant. Anything else is manual, I'm afraid.
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And the OCR training function is simply phenomenal!
Thanks - took a lot of work to figure out how to do a reasonable character interpretation without massive OCR engine.
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If you could get it to do a multi-grid in one pass (perhaps with user input as to number and arrangement of grids), I would be over the moon! Even standard Samurai would be very helpful.
I need to do a lot more work to the program to better recognise grid patterns - even a standard 9x9 sometimes confuses it (there are so many different designs out there). Just need to find some time to do it.
My primary drive for building it was to facilitate getting Futoshiki definitions for SudokuSolver - as there was no defined standard and the only puzzles I could find on line were image files. Since I'm lazy and couldn't be bothered to enter each one by hand, I put this little utility together.