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To improve the automation of metal sheet production these sheets have to be tracked during the processing steps. This is preferably done by video optical tracking. To recognize the metal sheets each of them has an unique ID imprinted. This paper describes a method to automatically detect the characters on metal sheets, to classify them and to combine them to a string. First the image is preprocessed...