Rocket telemetry extractor by Craig Mouser

Craig Mouser made a website tool to extract telemetry from video files. It looks like you can upload a video file, select the regions on screen which contain the telemetry you want to extract, and it will OCR each frame and output a CSV file.

Announcement and explanation on Twitter:

https://x.com/mouser58907/status/1819483839535714648

I made a tool to extract telemetry from video files. I've seen too many people do it manually and thought it seemed like a fun challenge to build. I gave myself one day and It works pretty well. Let me know what you think! https://telemetry.mouserlabs.com

https://x.com/mouser58907/status/1819484432119611732

Worth noting it is all done locally and for now requires you to have the video locally.

https://x.com/RyanHansenSpace/status/1819495679875772812

Have you tried altering the video file to drop the background much darker and boosting the text to see if that helps the text recognition?

https://x.com/mouser58907/status/1819498167928533473

Yeah, that's what I was attempting to do with the threshold slider. Tesseract just isn't that great. If I had more time to work on it I would have done something with a backend and deep learning. This blog made me give up pretty quick on trying to improve it. https://blog.roboflow.com/best-ocr-models-text-recognition/

Seems like a pretty cool and useful tool!