Hi guys,
I wrote a program that can recognize positions from books and magazines and give you the FEN. Here is the web interface where you can upload the image or paste directly from the clipboard.
My aim was to make it good enough to read blurry images from old chess books. Try it out and let me know if there are any issues.
also looking for this type of technology, something that can pull PDF text and transcribe it into PGN
google search brought me here, but any info would be appreciated!
@metterklume #23 I uploaded a jpg (it has numbers in the image on the board).
I think it was about 60%. Pretty clever though.
Do you know
1001 Deadly checkmate book
Now you can get it as FEN
goo.gl/1UqAJB
Here is an app that does exactly what you want: Chessify https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fimetech.chessfimee
Hi guys,
I wrote a program that can recognize positions from books and magazines and give you the FEN. Here is the web interface where you can upload the image or paste directly from the clipboard.
My aim was to make it good enough to read blurry images from old chess books. Try it out and let me know if there are any issues.
Hi,
Congrat! your project is great and detected my diagram completely, but Winboard 4.5.2 can't read the FEN code. I think maybe that needs an update. I'll do that and comment if the problem solved. Anyone to help meanwhile is welcome...
Try chessify 
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Unfortunatelly it can't read from images from hard drive.
Unfortunatelly it can't read from images from hard drive.
Do you mean chessvision.ai? It can but only in Firefox at the moment
For a solution that is neither a webpage nor a mobile phone app, see:
https://github.com/Elucidation/tensorflow_chessbot
I could try it, if anyone is already working on it let me know!
If there is still interest in this I could easily make it..
Go for it. Chess is played by millions of people, all over the globe. Tens of thousands of webpages exist that are chess related, or have chess diagrams. There will always be an interest for something like this.
hi there,, I am intersting,,, how can the photo convert to pgn format?
(I think you will discover it's not quite as easy as you think.)
Hi bamboosky2012, this app can perfectlly serve you.
Chessify allows to scan chessboards using OCR(optical character recognition) technology. You can use your phone camera to take a photo of a chess diagram from books, papers, even LCD screens(PDFs, other sources) or you can use photos from your phone gallery then scan and analyse the position(using stockfish chess engine). Also you can share the chess position (FEN) with other chess applications.
An iOS version will be coming soon. Good luck!