Show HN: Solve Something - an image-based solver for Draw Something

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/solve-something-for-draw-something/id515850565?ls=1&mt=8

by jzting • 14 years ago

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jzting5• 14 years ago

Made this over a handful of nights and weekends. To use, take a screenshot of the Draw Something drawing you are trying to guess and import it into the app. That's all!

jpadilla_• 14 years ago

This is pretty awesome! Mind sharing how the recognition works?

jzting5• 14 years ago

It's using OpenCV's template matching function. I tried to use other OCR libraries but OpenCV ended up yielding the most accurate results.

fredoliveira• 14 years ago

This is very impressive work - well done. Not only is it technically interesting, I like your UI too. Is this your first app?

jzting5• 14 years ago

Thanks! I have a couple other apps available:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/led-light-for-iphone-4-free/i... http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/good-word-free-words-friends/...

I worked with the same designer for these apps. I've noticed great design and UX really helps!

peter_l_downs• 14 years ago

How does it work? Looks very cool.

rollypolly2• 14 years ago

I'd be impressed if it used computer vision. I'd be even more impressed if it used Amazon's Mechanical Turk. :)

dfxm12• 14 years ago

Disclaimer: I don't have the app, so I don't know for sure...

I think the easiest way to solve this problem is to read the letters available, figure out how many letter the solution is, then compare these to the database of DrawSomething words. Many times you'll get a handful of possible solutions (especially for shorter words), but often enough, there will only be one possibility.

underscoretang• 14 years ago

Can you make it draw for you too?

jzting5• 14 years ago

No app for that (yet).

Show HN: Solve Something - an image-based solver for Draw Something

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