An OCR application will recognize printed text such as characters in various fonts, sizes, lighting conditions and orientations. The small team will include a project manager, preprocessor developer and neural network developer. They estimate 21 hours of work with 6 hours for preprocessing, 10 hours for the neural network and testing requiring 1 hour.

1. OCR application
Giuliano De Sabata
An 4 CTI

2. Description
● An OCR application performs a conversion
between printed text (png, jpg, pdf) to a
standard ASCII stream of characters.
● We want to create an application that will
recognize latin characters in a wide variety of
fonts, and in different sizes, lighting
condidtions and skew.

3. Resources
● We need a small team that can work in an
agile manner, possibly interchanging roles
beteen them:
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4. Resources
● Estimated number of work hours for each role
● Project manager: 4 hours
● Preprocessing development: 6 h
● Neural net developer: 10 h
● Testing: 1 hour

5. Project planning

6. Design phase
● Requirements for a running application have to be set: range of
character size, type of images to be processed, minimum percentage
of correct recognition.
● The implementation language and libraries have to be decided;
● Main data structures and control flow have to be designed
● The team of three can perform a meeting to adress each of the
issues on the agenda
● https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EVlFmJXdYjszBd4y17rPHfXa
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7. Development phase
● There are two parts of the net that can be
implmented in parallel:
● The preprocessing functionality focuses on
bringing each character at roughly the same
size and color palette
● The neural network algorithm is a generic
machine learning method for a classification
problem; Implementation and validation can
be made independentley;

8. Open Project
● Given detailed task estimations and task
dependencies, Open Project shows a project
schedule of around 14 days.
● We can see the workflow of all activities and
how each member can be productive at each
moment (if possible);

9. Workflow

10. Conclusions
● The Open Project tool allows project
managers and team members to have a
perspective over the time needed to
implement a project and the current status of
the implementation.