Cody’s status report for 11/2

I’ve spent some time trying to incorporate edge detection into contour recognition for the OCR, but I’m growing convinced that is not the way to go, as it has not seemed to help with recognizing the contours of characters without curves. I instead am beginning to believe I need to instead get the preprocessing as good as possible, as it currently is fairly grainy and has some noise, despite some attempt to reduce it. I’m going to continue improving this next week as well as put together the logic to combine adjacent characters into words.