Tue, 13 Sep 2005

DHTML Fun

I was looking around for some good DHTML how-to sites, and I ran across this freaky demo:

http://www.bindows.net

It works in both IE and Firefox (although, IE seems to handle it better).

It has a full OO API that looks exactly like a windows app -- except its DHTML and Javascript....and it talks to an XML backend. The GUI API is also XML based.

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Wed, 20 Jul 2005

OCR and Object Recognition

I may be reinventing the wheel, but I am pretty proud of myself tonight...I really don't have a clue on this entire subject -- not even basic understanding of OCR.

I have basic shape recognition working in a couple lines of perl using no libraries -- it just reads the binary image directly.

I am pretty close to reading special barcode data from a mere image. Due to the nature of the system, it will have significant tolerance towards rotated and distorted imagery.

The system could also be expanded towards other things..but I wont get ahead of myself just yet. Wouldn't that be a cool perl module or what?!

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