Lightning Talk - CONDG

Meetup: meetup.com/Central-Ohio-NET-Developers-Group-CONDG

YouTube: youtube.com/@CONDG

 

 

Tesseract OCR

GitHub: tesseract

Per Wikipedia:

 

 

Process images for better results

The Pillow package, a fork of the Python Imaging Library, was used for image processing.

 

 

Matt Eland

  • MattEland.dev
  • Accessible AI - Data Science on Azure for Everyone
  • GitHub: IntegerMan (Matt Eland)

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    Matt Eland's CONDG Talk

    On 2022-08-24, Matt gave a talk called Automating my Dog with Azure Cognitive Services

     

     

    Create Azure Resource

  • Computer Vision documentation
  • OCR - Optical Character Recognition - Azure Cognitive Services
  • Use Form Recognizer client library SDKs or REST API
  • azure-sdk-for-net/Sample_AnalyzePrebuiltRead
  • DocumentAnalysisClient.AnalyzeDocumentAsync Method

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    Console Application

    Source code is on GitHub: wmelvin/try-azure-ocr

     

     

    What's Next?

    There are now tools, leveraging LLMs, that can recognize the books in the images.

     

     

    Simon Willison

    GitHub: github.com/simonw

    YouTube: Using AI for Journalism

    Blog Post: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video

     

     

    Anders Hejlsberg

    Wikipedia: Anders Hejlsberg

    Interview on YouTube: From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript...

     

     

    Hanselminutes

    Hanselminutes: Introducing TypeChat with Anders Hejlsberg

     

     

    TypeChat

    Blog: Introducing TypeChat

    GitHub: TypeChat

     

     

    The Firebird Book

    I used the Firebird database server on the job for an internal application. It just worked - as they say.

     

     

    Turbo Pascal Techniques and Utilities

    This book was very helpful when I was making a living programming in Turbo Pascal.

     

     

    Microcontroller Handbook

    Early in my programming career, I wrote some microcontroller assembly language. Besides being a necessary reference, these manufacturer's handbooks were somehow fascinating.

     

     

    Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC

    The Peter Norton classic. Very useful back when knowing interrupt request (IRQ) numbers mattered.

     

     

    REBOL for Dummies

    I used REBOL on the job for one thing, once, a long time ago.

     

     

    That's All

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