A system on chip based serial number identification using computer vision
Raj Kumar Mishra, Preet Jain · 2016
Serial number is a unique number given to a product which can be used for product identification and inventory management. Information about the product may be its manufacturing date, expiry date, place of manufacture and so on. Some companies use serial numbers to keep track on the number of products which a retailer is authorized to sell. Thus serial number identification becomes an important part at industry level. This paper presents an approach to detect and identify serial numbers using computer vision. Webcam is used to provide vision capability and Raspberry Pi which is Linux based system on chip hardware acts as the processing unit for this project making it a compact system. Various algorithms of OpenCV along with C++ language were used to extract numbers from the image. These numbers were later stored in a file to keep track of them.