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dannguyen / README.md
Last active September 10, 2024 19:41
Using Python 3.x and Google Cloud Vision API to OCR scanned documents to extract structured data

Using Python 3 + Google Cloud Vision API's OCR to extract text from photos and scanned documents

Just a quickie test in Python 3 (using Requests) to see if Google Cloud Vision can be used to effectively OCR a scanned data table and preserve its structure, in the way that products such as ABBYY FineReader can OCR an image and provide Excel-ready output.

The short answer: No. While Cloud Vision provides bounding polygon coordinates in its output, it doesn't provide it at the word or region level, which would be needed to then calculate the data delimiters.

On the other hand, the OCR quality is pretty good, if you just need to identify text anywhere in an image, without regards to its physical coordinates. I've included two examples:

####### 1. A low-resolution photo of road signs

@lmarkus
lmarkus / README.MD
Last active June 2, 2025 03:36
Extracting / Exporting custom emoji from Slack

Extracting Emoji From Slack!

Slack doesn't provide an easy way to extract custom emoji from a team. (Especially teams with thousands of custom emoji) This Gist walks you through a relatively simple approach to get your emoji out.

If you're an admin of your own team, you can get the list of emoji directly using this API: https://api.slack.com/methods/emoji.list. Once you have it, skip to Step 3

HOWEVER! This gist is intended for people who don't have admin access, nor access tokens for using that list.

Follow along...

@bishboria
bishboria / springer-free-maths-books.md
Last active May 10, 2025 04:28
Springer made a bunch of books available for free, these were the direct links
@somazx
somazx / Gemfile
Last active February 1, 2017 20:03
Using Amazon Elasticsearch securely (signed requests) with Rails & searchkick gem on Heroku.
gem 'elasticsearch', '>= 1.0.15'
gem 'elasticsearch-model'
gem 'elasticsearch-rails'
gem 'patron'
gem 'faraday_middleware-aws-signers-v4'
gem 'searchkick'
anonymous
anonymous / abyss-as-a-service
Created November 20, 2015 14:56
Floating serenely through a peaceful abyss, a sigh escapes; content.
A siren wails, you're jolted from your respite
/dev/xsdb1 is at 100%
A cacophony of alerts screech from the phone.
Upset is the fragile balance, failure cascades.
Was only a matter of time.
Get some coffee.
All you ping seems to crumble, machine after machine fall; a massacre of uptime.
@cmahns
cmahns / otrdm.md
Last active September 24, 2024 14:40
HOWTO: Twitter DM with OTR

Twitter DM + OTR: A quick and dirty tutorial

With the recent removal of the 140-character limit in Direct Messages by Twitter, DM's have now become a much more useful platform for communicating between individuals and groups. Sadly, DM's are still sent in plaintext between users and Twitter has no plans currently on encrypting these messages, at least as of August 2015. Since these are stored in plaintext at rest, an adversary can see the content of the message you are sending, which the two parties might not wish to happen. Fortunately as a few applications with basic Twitter support which also have excellent support for OTR, all hope isn't lo

@fidothe
fidothe / pdfx.rb
Last active October 10, 2023 15:57
Worked example for creating a PDF/X-1a:2003 document with Prawn
require 'prawn'
require 'prawn/measurements'
# I have a small collection of links to the resources I used to figure all
# this out: http://pinboard.in/u:fidothe/t:pdfx
module PDFX
class PageBox
include Prawn::Measurements
attr_reader :bleed_mm
@exAspArk
exAspArk / friday_deploy_cap2.rb
Last active November 14, 2020 23:13
Friday deploy script for Capistrano
# Capistrano 2
before "deploy", "friday:good_luck"
namespace :friday do
friday_jumper = %{
┓┏┓┏┓┃
┛┗┛┗┛┃⟍ ○⟋
┓┏┓┏┓┃ ∕ Friday
┛┗┛┗┛┃ノ)
@vladignatyev
vladignatyev / progress.py
Last active December 2, 2024 17:14
Python command line progress bar in less than 10 lines of code.
# The MIT License (MIT)
# Copyright (c) 2016 Vladimir Ignatev
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software
# is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
@aanand
aanand / gist:9e7ac7185ffd64c1a91a
Last active June 4, 2018 00:58

Preview build: Container grouping and stack composition

NOTE: this is out of date - refer to moby/moby#9694

Here is a preview build of two new features we’re working on concurrently: container grouping (docker groups) and stack composition (docker up). Together, they will eventually form a complete replacement for Fig.