I honestly hadn't even considered that. I have a very different type of array that I am working with - similar to the affymetrix DNA microarrays (except its with proteins and its colorless).
I'm not sure how well one could use this technique to find words in a pattern like that. Maybe if you knew what dictionary was used to generate the word (so you could check for feasibility) it might be useful for that. But being as the ones I've seen use upper and lowercase letters, and varied fonts at varied heights, I think that guessing letters could be fairly difficult. | [reply] |
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I am working with (physical) array data, that is scanned in at 100 microns / pixel.
You're wrong. :) Sounds like an electron microscope image to me, but then, I'm an engineer and not a scientist.
Alex / talexb / Toronto
"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds
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Actually, it is a scanner. Its a "Typhoon 9410" that can go to 10 microns per pixel in certain modes.
The EM that we have here does much, much better than that. I suppose if I could coat a fly with fluorescent goo I could image it on this in the way that one could with an EM of this resolution :)
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Not really, There is *alot* of work involved with breaking captchas, simply finding grayscale is not going to help you at all. | [reply] |
That thought crossed my mind but the large image size hinted at and the use of the TIFF image format quickly steered me towards bioinformatics. | [reply] |
