namespace OcrDaemon; using System.Drawing; using OpenCvSharp; using OpenCvSharp.Extensions; static class ImagePreprocessor { /// /// Pre-process an image for OCR using morphological white top-hat filtering. /// Isolates bright tooltip text, suppresses dim background text visible through overlay. /// Pipeline: grayscale → morphological top-hat → Otsu binary → 2x upscale /// public static Bitmap PreprocessForOcr(Bitmap src) { using var mat = BitmapConverter.ToMat(src); using var gray = new Mat(); Cv2.CvtColor(mat, gray, ColorConversionCodes.BGRA2GRAY); // Morphological white top-hat: isolates bright text on dark background // Kernel size 25x25 captures text strokes, suppresses dim background text using var kernel = Cv2.GetStructuringElement(MorphShapes.Rect, new OpenCvSharp.Size(25, 25)); using var tophat = new Mat(); Cv2.MorphologyEx(gray, tophat, MorphTypes.TopHat, kernel); // Otsu binarization: automatic threshold, black text on white using var binary = new Mat(); Cv2.Threshold(tophat, binary, 0, 255, ThresholdTypes.BinaryInv | ThresholdTypes.Otsu); // 2x upscale for better LSTM recognition using var upscaled = new Mat(); Cv2.Resize(binary, upscaled, new OpenCvSharp.Size(binary.Width * 2, binary.Height * 2), interpolation: InterpolationFlags.Cubic); return BitmapConverter.ToBitmap(upscaled); } }