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Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By : Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Book Image

Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By: Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

This Learning Path takes you on a journey in the world of robotics and teaches you all that you can achieve with Raspberry Pi and Python. It teaches you to harness the power of Python with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi zero to build superlative automation systems that can transform your business. You will learn to create text classifiers, predict sentiment in words, and develop applications with the Tkinter library. Things will get more interesting when you build a human face detection and recognition system and a home automation system in Python, where different appliances are controlled using the Raspberry Pi. With such diverse robotics projects, you'll grasp the basics of robotics and its functions, and understand the integration of robotics with the IoT environment. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have covered everything from configuring a robotic controller, to creating a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. • Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition by Tim Cox, Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes • Python Programming with Raspberry Pi by Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor • Python Robotics Projects by Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Visualizing optical characters


Optical character visualization is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that such texts can be electronically edited, searched, stored compactly, and displayed online. Currently, they are widely used in cognitive computing, machine translation, text-to-speech conversion, text mining, and so on.

How to do it...

  1. Import the following packages:
import os 
import sys 
import cv2 
import numpy as np 
  1. Load the input data:
in_file = 'words.data'  
  1. Define the visualization parameters:
scale_factor = 10 
s_index = 6 
e_index = -1 
h, w = 16, 8 
  1. Loop until you encounter the Esc key:
with open(in_file, 'r') as f: 
  for line in f.readlines(): 
    information = np.array([255*float(x) for x in line.split('t')[s_index:e_index]]) 
    image = np.reshape(information, (h,w)) 
    image_scaled = cv2.resize(image, None, fx=scale_factor, fy=scale_factor) 
    cv2.imshow('Image', image_scaled) 
    a = cv2.waitKey() 
    if a == 10: 
      break 
  1. Type python visualize_character...