Show HN: Solve Something - an image-based solver for Draw Something

jzting 14 years ago |

Made this over a handful of nights and weekends. To use, take a screenshot of the Draw Something drawing you are trying to guess and import it into the app. That's all!

jpadilla_ 14 years ago | |

This is pretty awesome! Mind sharing how the recognition works?

jzting 14 years ago | | |

It's using OpenCV's template matching function. I tried to use other OCR libraries but OpenCV ended up yielding the most accurate results.

rollypolly 14 years ago | | |

How did fit everything in a 3M IPA? Is anything downloaded after the app is installed?

jzting 14 years ago | | |

I ended up doing the processing server side - performance on older devices was shockingly slow.

fredoliveira 14 years ago | |

This is very impressive work - well done. Not only is it technically interesting, I like your UI too. Is this your first app?

jzting 14 years ago | | |

Thanks! I have a couple other apps available:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/led-light-for-iphone-4-free/i... http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/good-word-free-words-friends/...

I worked with the same designer for these apps. I've noticed great design and UX really helps!

peter_l_downs 14 years ago |

How does it work? Looks very cool.

dfxm12 14 years ago | |

Disclaimer: I don't have the app, so I don't know for sure...

I think the easiest way to solve this problem is to read the letters available, figure out how many letter the solution is, then compare these to the database of DrawSomething words. Many times you'll get a handful of possible solutions (especially for shorter words), but often enough, there will only be one possibility.

rollypolly 14 years ago | |

I'd be impressed if it used computer vision. I'd be even more impressed if it used Amazon's Mechanical Turk. :)

underscoretang 14 years ago |

Can you make it draw for you too?

jzting 14 years ago | |

No app for that (yet).