garybernhardt

This document has moved!

It's now here, in The Programmer's Compendium. The content is the same as before, but being part of the compendium means that it's actively maintained.

dannguyen

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

dcrosta

import time


class PageCategoryFilter(object):
    def __init__(self, config):
        self.mode = config["mode"]
        self.categories = config["categories"]

    def filter(self, bid_request):
        if self.mode == "whitelist":

jonhoo

Distributed Read-Write Mutex in Go

This project has moved to https://github.com/jonhoo/drwmutex so it can be imported into Go applications.

drkarl

Linux Backup Solutions

I've been looking for the best Linux backup system, and also reading lots of HN comments.

Instead of putting pros and cons of every backup system I'll just list some deal-breakers which would disqualify them.

Also I would like that you, the HN community, would add more deal breakers for these or other backup systems if you know some more and at the same time, if you have data to disprove some of the deal-breakers listed here (benchmarks, info about something being true for older releases but is fixed on newer releases), please share it so that I can edit this list accordingly.

Amanda (comments by sammcj)

• It has a lot of management overhead and that's a problem if you don't have time for a full time backup administrator.

arkadijs

Registrator and SkyDNS

We use progrium/registrator and yaronr/skydns (SkyDNS2) to publish information about Docker containers to DNS via A and SRV records. All nodes runs skydns and registrator, and first three nodes are inserted as NS-s into Route53 DNS for services.cluster-name.domain.io. Note, v4 registrator must be used until registrator/124 is resolved.

$ host -t srv mysql-1.services.deis.r53.acp.io deis-6-1.eu.r53.acp.io
Using domain server:
Name: deis-6-1.eu.r53.acp.io
Address: 54.171.239.227#53
Aliases: 

Revolucent

//
//  BitwiseOptions.swift
//
//  Created by Gregory Higley on 11/24/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Prosumma LLC. All rights reserved.
//
// 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

sketchytech

import Foundation

extension String
{

// Works in Xcode but not Playgrounds because of a bug with .insert()

mutating func insertString(string:String,ind:Int) {
var insertIndex = advance(self.startIndex, ind, self.endIndex)
for c in string {

ideaoforder

openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout yourdomain.key -out yourdomain.csr

http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/3601/generating-a-certificate-signing-request-nginx
http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/4976/rekeying-an-ssl-certificate

# Be sure to remember to chain them!
cat gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt >> yourdomain.crt

# Move 'em
sudo mv yourdomain.crt /etc/ssl/certs/yourdomain.crt

Nagyman

Workflows (States) in Django

I'm going to cover a simple, but effective, utility for managing state and transitions (aka workflow). We often need to store the state (status) of a model and it should only be in one state at a time.

Common Software Uses

• Publishing (Draft->Approved->Published->Expired->Deleted)