Stable vs Dev version, document image enhancement

[Tony Yu]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Josh Warner <silvertrumpet999 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Parand,
>
> Welcome!  Most of the gallery examples work in the current release (0.7.2
> I believe), but the rank filter is in a PR that was merged recently, and is
> presently only in the dev version.  You may want the functionality in the
> rank filter for OCR work, where fast local operations like the otsu
> threshold could be very beneficial.
>
> I'll let other people answer the questions about specific references as
> I'm on the road, but I think most of what you need to do is available in
> scikit-image.
>
> Josh Warner
>

Just wanted to add: The documentation for the last release can be found
here:

http://scikit-image.org/docs/0.7.0/


It might be a good idea for us to point to the stable version instead of
the development version by default.



On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 7:00:24 PM UTC-6, Parand Darugar wrote:
>>
>>
>> <snip>

> - My initial goal is image/document enhancement and cleanup in order to
>> improve OCR. The images are primarily captured via cell phone cameras and
>> scanners, so I'm looking to normalize and enhance the color, remove noise,
>> and straighten them. Any pointers to code, papers, or algorithms that may
>> be of interest would be appreciated.
>>
>> -- Error message --
>> >>> import skimage.filter.rank as rank
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>   File "skimage/filter/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
>>     from .ctmf import median_filter
>>   File "skimage/filter/ctmf.py", line 15, in <module>
>>     from . import _ctmf
>> ImportError: cannot import name _ctmf
>>
>
This shouldn't happen. How did you install scikit-image? Are you sure that
you built the package after downloading.

Cheers,
-Tony
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