Using Evernote as a Powerball lottery ticket scanner

[megreen831 2]

Evernote + OCR + Lottery Tickets <> Lottery Ticket Scanner 

 

With the Powerball at $1.5B, we all kicked in for lottery tickets.  I've got 500 of them and thought about a creative way to check them for winning numbers.... Take pics and put them in Evernote.  It should work.  Each slip of paper contains 10 lottery ticket number sets.   Each number set on the ticket is space delimited, so a search for 5 numbers like 12 32 44 55 56 should result in yellow highlights across all the tickets where each of those "words" appear.  

But it doesn't work.  Even though the pics are in great focus, the search misses some numbers and catches some extras.  What's up with that?

 

It really highlighted a flaw in the OCR logic.  

 

 

[jbenson2 2,147]

As you have found out, photo OCR is not a black and white science.

[JMichaelTX 4,117]

On 1/13/2016 at 4:17 PM, megreen831 said:

But it doesn't work.  Even though the pics are in great focus, the search misses some numbers and catches some extras.

If the image is sharp, then a 3rd party OCR tool like Adobe Acrobat should be able to do a great job.

Then if you get a hit with most of the numbers, you can always visually check those.  Let's see, if you win, my commission will be . . .

Just kidding!

Good luck, and let us know how it goes.

[Frank.dg 1,385]

Could you post an example picture/ scan for us to test out? This is not an exact science as mentioned above. You would do well to log the numbers in the note titles if you have scans in the note body... Or pop them into a table in one note (not OneNote). 

How long does each scan take? Are you using the Scannable app or the Scan Snap printer?