[Image-SIG] Feature extraction

[Bob Klimek]

Franz Struwig wrote:

>Greetings all,
>
>I'm trying to isolate characters on an image and obtain each character's  
>center of gravity.
>
>This is quite a tough task when using strange fonts and italics, since  
>letters overlap constantly, and bad image quality makes it really hard.
>
>Does anyone know about an algorithm that can be used for this kind of  
>feature extraction process?
>  
>
I'm don't think PIL has anything of the sort but I believe Numarray's 
nd_image module has some basic segmentation and labeling, which might do 
what you need, or perhaps could be a starting point for you to add some 
capability.

Bob