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Well that was sodding hard work….
OK so I’ve praised MagicWand now I feel I can curse it. I want a 1bit BMP out of the thing. A bitmap is easy, it’s smart. I write something ending in jpg it writes a jpg, I want a … Continue reading
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Tagged C, ImageMagick, MagickWand, OCR, Optical Character Recognition, Programming
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MagickWand and OCR
The problem with photographs and OCR is they contain lots of noise and colour that is really not helpful. Levels and Posterise alongside other tools in the GIMP or Photoshop help but they’re hardly automatic and can’t be compiled into … Continue reading
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Tagged C, ImageMagick, MagickWand, OCR, Optical Character Recognition, Programming, sudoku
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Candid Macro Casey
Macro Casey, originally uploaded by Diziet. This was taken a few weeks ago on a Sunday walk at Ashridge. This was the only shot where he’s not trying to lick either me or the camera.
A strange bug moving from 64bit to 32bit.
So I installed an SSH client on my iPhone today, TouchTerm (which so far I think is excellent, especially how it handles ctrl keys etc.), and the first thing I do? SSH to my server and compile the previously mentioned … Continue reading
It lives!
Finally. Stripped out loads of code having realised that keeping a list of possible answers to each square is all well and good but the computational time spent maintaining it outweighs the benefits of just err.. well figuring it out … Continue reading
A short note on arrays and ncurses with a bit of a git.
So ncurses operates on a y,x co-ordinate system. All of it’s functions expect y first, for example: getyx(y,x); which gets the location of the cursor putting the values into y and x. This sounds a bit counter intuitive to us, … Continue reading
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Tagged C, git, ncurses, Programming, Puzzles
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I’m getting there.
Update on progress for the sudoku C ncurses programming I’m putting together for self education. Continue reading