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2012-10-05 02:36:12 -0600	commented question	What are some good implementation of efforts to digitise an analog dial? Is it possible to extract the angle without converting to images?
2012-10-05 02:35:36 -0600	commented question	What are some good implementation of efforts to digitise an analog dial? I was thinking, first to convert the video to images by reducing the frame rate to say one per sec, then extracting the dial from the image, and read the angle of the pointer (blue) from the images, then convert the angle to corresponding force value by calibration.
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2012-10-05 02:29:48 -0600	asked a question	What are some good implementation of efforts to digitise an analog dial? For example, the dial of a watch is analog, in my machine of interest, there is a similar dial which gives the reading for Force. I want to install a camera in front of the dial and from the received images, extract the information like time in watch or Force from UTM. This data extraction has to happen in Real-time and continuously. So, for example, the program output should be "the time" read from the watch which updates say, every second.