Kwy·ji·bo, n.
“A big, dumb, balding North American ape with no chin and a short temper.”
Kwyjibo is also an experimental, automated referee for Scrabble games. It was built to explore real-time OCR, computer vision and machine learning as the subject of my dissertation at the University of Sheffield in 2011.
You can read a little bit about how it works in this explanation. Much of the image processing is done using the Aforge.NET computer vision library. There's also a video of it working.
Note: this project was for academic research only and is not associated with Scrabble ®
Kwyjibo is licensed under The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 Liam Brummitt