OCRguessr: making posters into a guessing game — Science Museum Hangman
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1 min readMay 28, 2021
By Iain Bean, Cogapp.
This February marked my first Cogapp Company hack day — a day where we set aside our usual work and put our creative energies into something a little bit different.
The theme for this Coghack was ‘Museum APIs’, so for a bit of inspiration I had a look at a few museum collection sites. I’ve always been interested in graphic design and typography, so I was drawn to the Science Museum’s extensive collection of posters covering topics from transport to public health.
I wanted to inject some interactivity into the experience of viewing these posters, so after some thought I decided on a Hangman-style letter guessing game using Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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