Java OpenCV Based Ballot Paper Counting System

This is a balot paper counting system for Standard Sri Lankan ballot papers implemented using openCV API for Java.

Requirements

• Java 7+
• Maven 3 for building
• openCV library files for your host system

Installation

1. Clone this repository or download it
2. Build the project using maven (use mvn clean install command on the root directory of the project)
3. Once build is complee the application will be packaged into a jar file inside the target folder
4. Run the following command on the root of the project directory

java -jar target\ballot-counter-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -Djava.library.path="<path to your openCV libs>"

Directory Structure

The application makes use of standard set of folders & files that are expected to be present at the current directory the app is run on. They are as follows:

• balotpapers folder - this folder holds the image files of the ballot papers that needs to be counted
• config_images folder - this folder holds the file pref_vote_template.jpg which is the unmarked template for preference votes
• config_images\parties folder - this folder holds template images for each party's symbol.