Re: OCR was [web services, pharo]

2010/2/15 laurent laffont <[hidden email]>

now that I work in library software :)  ...

Fetch data from ISBN is not so difficult, depends on the provider you want. The most used protocol around the world is Z39.50  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z39.50 to get MARC formatted catalogs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIMARC.  I don't know if there's Smalltalk implementations of these standards.

Of course we have!!!

http://n4.nabble.com/ANN-Z39-50-FFI-Client-ZOOM-binding-td1307520.html#a1307520
 

If you don't need high level of details, Amazon, Library Thing, ... have good catalogs with modern web services to access them.

For the webcam / scan part, I don't know what we have in Smalltalk.  You need OCR tools...

I don't know, what would be cool. I suggest to send separate emails for this to get more answers.

 

Laurent Laffont

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[hidden email]> wrote:

I really like the idea of scripting and gluing together behavior.
What I would love to be able to do is to
       use the webcam of my machine to scan a book ISBN number
       and fetch all the data from a given provider.
Does anybody have an idea how we could plug all that together.

Stef

On Feb 14, 2010, at 8:45 PM, laurent laffont wrote:

> Thanks for help and .... enjoy :)  http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/2010/02/rest-xml-parsing-and-photos.html
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> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:20 PM, laurent laffont <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Make sure that the stream is binary:
> SketchMorph fromStream: ('http://lh3.ggpht.com/_BvlW9mJ6MFc/R-p4PtCKitI/AAAAAAAAA1A/jySYN6rz_pc/DSC00801.JPG' asUrl retrieveContents contents asByteArray readStream)
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> It works ! Thank you ! You've just saved a screencast :)
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> 2010/2/13 Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]>
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> I think he talks about this one
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> http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/
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> 2010/2/13 laurent laffont <[hidden email]>
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> Which web page ?
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> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <
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> laurent have a look in the network chapter of the new blue book
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> because I do not remember but you could find some snippets going in the
> same sense.
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> On Feb 13, 2010, at 3:29 PM, laurent laffont wrote:
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>  (SketchMorph fromStream:
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>      asUrl retrieveContents contentStream)) openInWorld
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