/Pinaker

Utility to catalogue books from barcodes, acccessing ISBNdb

Primary LanguagePascal

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Version: 0.19b

This application reads jpg files with photos of barcodes and
retrieves the book data from the Web. 

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Disclaimer: This software is provided as is, with no express
or implied warranties. For all intents and purposes, I just 
put a bunch of bytes in some server and I'm not responsible 
if anything goes wrong. 

In fact, I'll be surprised if this works at all.
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Source code available at:
https://github.com/lkrippahl/Pinaker

IMPORTANT: Before running pinaker on Linux you need to 
create a home/.config/pinaker folder and copy there the 
*.pws files in the pinaker/websources folder and the 
htmlcodes.txt file in the pinaker folder.

Binaries for Ubuntu and Windows at:
http://centria.fct.unl.pt/~ludi/software.html

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Acknowledgments

Lukas Gebauer: Ararat Synapse source code.

Johann C. Rocholl: Ideas for barcode identification from 
 his dissertation on "Robust 1D Barcode Recognition on 
 Mobile Devices".

Marcos Marado: Bug fixes, debian packages and compile 
 information for Linux.

Paula Simões: Data sources, requirements and testing.

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Ludwig Krippahl, 2011. All copy rights shared.

Source code by Ludwig Krippahl is public domain.
See SYNAPSE.txt for the Ararat Synapse copyright terms.


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