Recognizing playing cards

Hello,
I’ve encountered a hopefully resolvable problem related to recognizing playing cards recently. The approach which I’m taking is as follows:

  1. Find all the interesting contours.
  2. Find a vector which will be represented as two points (where it begins and where it ends) like so:
    find two points at the bottom and at the top of the symbol creating a vector of some kind. The difficulty occurs when a card is rotated as the programme also have to be able to deal which such situations.
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I’d appreciate any idea as I’ve been trying to solve this issue for the last couple of days.
Tank you