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# CardReader
## Overview:
An application that demonstrates how to capture Media Elements from a live camera feed in order to create a new contact. This extracts the text and integrates it into the Windows People App using Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

This application tutorial is broken up into the following exercises:

1. Setup a Windows 10 Universal Application using Visual Studio Community edition 2015.
2. Use an embedded/external camera in order to capture Media using MediaCapture API.
* XAML elements and Code Behind Events in order to find cameras
* Connect to selected camera
* Display the camera feed.
3. Extract text from an image using the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) library.
4. Integrate with the Windows People App.

## Technical requirements:
* Some experience with C# and XAML.
* [Visual Studio 2015 and Windows developer tooling.](https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads)
* Ensure you are using [Windows 10 or better.](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade)
* Hardware:
* At least one (1) HD camera device connected or embedded.

## Getting started:
To use these exercises, download the entire exercises ZIP or clone the repository. If you download the ZIP, you can then unzip the entire archive and use the exercises in Visual Studio 2015. An overview of the code can be found in the CardReader exercises folder.