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@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active October 23, 2024 17:18
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

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Models Examples
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@Hodapp87
Hodapp87 / vtk_python_mesh.py
Created February 8, 2014 00:49
Simple VTK example in Python to load an STL mesh and display with a manipulator.
#!/bin/env python
"""
Simple VTK example in Python to load an STL mesh and display with a manipulator.
Chris Hodapp, 2014-01-28, (c) 2014
"""
import vtk
def render():
@yefim
yefim / app.coffee
Last active October 4, 2016 07:19
A simple opt in group messaging solution with Twilio, Redis, and Expressjs
NUMBERS_SET = 'numbers'
TWILIO_NUMBER = '+12345678900'
TWILIO_SID = 'account_sid'
TWILIO_TOKEN = 'auth_token'
express = require('express')
http = require('http')
path = require('path')
redis = require('redis')
app = express()
import speech_recognition
import pyttsx
speech_engine = pyttsx.init('sapi5') # see http://pyttsx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/engine.html#pyttsx.init
speech_engine.setProperty('rate', 150)
def speak(text):
speech_engine.say(text)
speech_engine.runAndWait()
@ivanistheone
ivanistheone / README.md
Last active March 29, 2017 00:18 — forked from GGulati/Jarvis.py
Code that goes with blog post https://ggulati.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/coding-jarvis-in-python-3-in-2016/ —with modifications for Mac OS X.
@dannguyen
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