Picture recognition

[mcdermott]

Hi!

 

I've been thinking about making a program for my scanner that recognizes which part of the scanned paper to keep and save as a file (gif, jpeg or bmp). For example a rectangular area (7x4 cm) on the paper with a frame made by a marker pen.

 

I'm familiar with C/C++ programming and have been making many apps for Windows etc. but on this one I am completely lost, I don't even know where to start so any help would be appreciated. Years ago I put togheter some code to control my modem/serial-device (send/receive data on a com-port), maybe this might be of some use to drive the scanner??

 

Thank you in advance!

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/L. Attractor