Making machine poetry with train wagons and OCR
In this video I'm using OCR software Tesseract to detect the text on the side of passing freight train box cars to make machine poetry. Coding it up in openFrameworks C++ creative coding toolkit.
You can follow along and explore your own ideas and download the source code from here;
https://github.com/danbz/art-and-code
checkout the documentation and download openFrameworks from https://openframeworks.cc
get the ofTeseseract addon here https://github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxTe... (thanks Kyle McDonald)
with big respect to video artist Sebastian Acker https://www.sebastianacker.com whose work "CAN’T SEE THE WOOD FOR THE TREES" was a big inspiration for this initial project