Note: This will only work on certain camera trap's footage, and was developed for a specific project

Setup

Install tesseract from here: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Home.html

Currrently, due to early development the path to the tesseract.exe file needs to be manually updated in camera_time_detect.py. Replace the path on line 13 (pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\\Program Files\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe') with the path to your installation directory. Leave the r intact at the start of the string.

eg. pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\\Program Files\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe' changes to pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'my_path_to_tesseract.exe'

Make sure that any backslashes (\) are either doubled or changed to forward slashes. (/)

You can set up the python enviroment using pip and the requirements.txt file. If you don't have python installed look at www.python.org and follow the instructions. From a terminal(cmd or powershell should both work on Windows) navigate to the folder containing this repository and run pip install -r requirements.txt or pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage Example

Either run from the command line using: python camera_time_detect.py "my_directory_containing_videos_path" "my_csv_path" You can add an optional -d flag to indicate that you want to output as a human readable date stamp instead of a timestamp. python camera_time_detect.py "my_directory_containing_videos_path" "my_csv_path" -d

Or use as a library by using: import camera_time_detect write_to_csv("my_csv_path", run_dir("my_dir_path"))