Webcam command line applications

Configuration script

Dyne works fine with logitech quickcam :

modprobe mod_quickcam.o

ln -sf /dev/v4l/video0 /dev/video

Check TroubleShooting for other webcams

Screenshot

* http://www.lea-linux.org/cached/index/Software-soft_multi-webcam.html is a tutorial for using "webcam" , a simple grabber for webcams. * http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuide Motion can do everything with a webcam includind pre-treatments of grabbed images. (todo : check the install in dyne...)

Image filtering and analysing

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php the classical image magick (todo : check the install in dyne...)

OCR

http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/1/gocr.html would do the trick (todo : check the install in dyne...)

Overall glue

A simple perl script in daemon mode would take a screenshot every second , a simple compare image would localize change in the picture and then activate the treatment and the "processing algorithm".