SudokuExtract

Library for extracting Sudokus from images using scikit-image.

This package is, and will continue to be, unmaintained. It has been removed from PyPI, but will be available for installation from this archived repo instead.

Requirements

• numpy>=1.9.2
• scipy>=0.15.1
• scikit-image<0.12.0
• Pillow>=3.1.0
• pyefd>=0.1.2
• dlxsudoku>=0.10.0

Usage

Install via pip:

$ pip install sudokuextract

SudokuExtract is a tool for parsing Sudokus from images, this primarily to be able to send it forward to some kind of solver. It applies some image analysis on the input image and then uses a K-Nearest Neighbours classifier to determine which digits that are present in which box.

SudokuExtract can be used as a command line tool:

parse-sudoku -p /path/to/sudoku_image.jpg

which prints the parsed Sudoku in the terminal. In can also be called with an url to an image:

parse-sudoku -u http://www.domain.com/sudoku.jpg

It can also be used as a regular Python package:

In [1]: from sudokuextract.extract import extract_sudoku, load_image, predictions_to_suduko_string

In [2]: img = load_image('/path/to/sudoku_image.jpg')

In [3]: predictions, sudoku_box_images, whole_sudoku_image = extract_sudoku(img)

In [4]: print(predictions_to_suduko_string(predictions))
800603001
057401630
000000000
006109800
400000007
001805400
000000000
072504310
900302004

There are possibilities of using a classifier of your own creation when predicting digits; see the documentation for more details.

Testing

Run tests with pytest:

$ py.test tests.py

Documentation

TBD.

References

This library includes classifiers trained with data from the MNIST dataset (This data is also included in SudokuExtract).

[1] LeCun et al. (1999): The MNIST Dataset Of Handwritten Digits

The current parsing strategy for the sudokuextract package is inspired by this blog entry:

[2] AI: SuDoKu Grabber with OpenCV