>my question is that todays newer versions and available low cost hardware (namely *PI like boards) could allow a similar but more complex process in almost rea

>my question is that todays newer versions and available low cost hardware (namely *PI like boards) could allow a similar but more complex process in almost realtime and reading whole digits instead of bullets. That is, an user puts a piece of paper under the camera, the software recognizes what it is by looking at common patterns it has with other similar documents, giving it proper orientation when needed, then it reads text and numeric information applying OCR code, then according to that information, fills/updates one or more fields in this or that database. Doable? Caveats? It is certainly do-able and has already been implemented by banks for image based clearance/processing of cheques[1] and fraud detection. The caveats in this case would include a large set of training data and a supervised model for handwritten examples. [1]https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/07/24/bank-check-ocr-with-opencv-and-python-part-i/ https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/07/24/bank-check-ocr-with...