I participated in a run in Germany and each official number had a RFI
tag attached. At the start of the race we were herded through gates to
get the start time and at the end there were wider gates to go through
for the stop time. This enabled the score board to be updated in real
time as team members finished.
I can now say impressive things about the magic of running into the
Olympic Stadium for the last lap without necessarily mentioning the 2000
people who experienced the magic just before me.
Roger
On 08/02/11 20:33, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello folks
>
> This is a bit of a long shot -- Googling hasn't helped.
>
> Does anyone know of Linux-based / open-source software that could
> automatically read the number from a runner's vest, such as the ones
> on this page:
>
> http://www.edstaggphotography.com/thumbnails.php?album=291&page=2
>
> I've briefly toyed with tesseract and gocr, but they (not
> surprisingly) try to interpret the whole image as text, and generate a
> mess of punctuation.
>
> 100% accuracy wouldn't be required. If it can get the number for some
> of the runners, that would help.
>
> cheers
>
> Chris
