Abby’s Status Report for Dec 6

This week, we wrapped up our mechanical design and construction. The software side is working to our standards, one change we made was moving on from Tessaract to EasyOCR. This is a relatively quick change, all that needed to be done was download the new program and replace it in the script where Tessaract was used. While Tessararct worked up to our standard for the demo, we believe once we incorporated pictures on the Rasp. Pi camera, there were quality differences that were not visibly noticeable to us, but hindered the OCR. I worked on the final testing of the embosser. We are unfortunately having issues with inconsistent printing, but all the mechanisms are moving as we designed. There is a possibility the final demo will not be able to show as high quality prints as expected, but we are continuing to trouble shoot. We are excited for the demo and will be wrapping up this weekend.