Booky is an application to help publish ads for second-hand book.
It enables taking multiple picture of the book(s). Specify the books state (brand new, worn out), add the weight (for shipping), then extract the ISBN from the barcode in the pictures to find the books metadata.
In the 'Enrichment' step, it query several websites to get the books metadata (title, authors, blurb, keywords and price).
Booky then automatically create a compelling ad with all the relevant information.
A bunch of books | Use Booky to take picture of the book, and gather metadata | Publish your book |
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Booky will scrape various websites to find metadata like:
- Title
- Authors
- Blurb. A book blurb is a short promotional description, whereas a synopsis summarizes the twists, turns, and conclusion of the story.
- Keywords or genres
- Market price
let isbn = 9782266071529;
BookMetaData {
title: "Le nom de la bête",
author: {
surname: "Daniel",
name: "Easterman",
},
blurb: "Janvier 1999. Peu à peu, les pays arabes ont sombré dans l'intégrisme. Les attentats terroristes se multiplient en Europe attisant la haine et le racisme. Au Caire, un coup d'état fomenté par les fondamentalistes permet à leur chef Al-Kourtoubi de s'installer au pouvoir et d'instaurer la terreur. Le réseau des agents secrets britanniques en Égypte ayant été anéanti, Michael Hunt est obligé de reprendre du service pour enquêter sur place. Aidé par son frère Paul, prêtre catholique et agent du Vatican, il apprend que le Pape doit se rendre à Jérusalem pour participer à une conférence œcuménique. Au courant de ce projet, le chef des fondamentalistes a prévu d'enlever le saint père.Dans ce récit efficace et à l'action soutenue, le héros lutte presque seul contre des groupes fanatiques puissants et sans grand espoir de réussir. Comme dans tous ses autres livres, Daniel Easterman, spécialiste de l'islam, part du constat que le Mal est puissant et il dénonce l'intolérance et les nationalismes qui engendrent violence et chaos.--Claude Mesplède<br>\t\t",
key_words: [
"roman", "fantastique", "policier historique", "romans policiers et polars", "thriller", "terreur", "action", "démocratie", "mystique", "islam", "intégrisme religieux", "catholicisme", "religion", "terrorisme", "extrémisme", "egypte", "médias", "thriller religieux", "littérature irlandaise", "irlande"
],
}
Source | Metadata (in addition to title and authors) | Notes |
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Babelio | blurb, keyword | No API available. No plan to build one. Babelio seem to block the IP if it detect this bot is doing some scrapping |
Decitre | blurb, keywords in commentaries | |
GoodReads | blurb, genres in english | An API was available, but GoodRead does not create new developer key. See this |
Google Books | blurb, genres | A real API is available to look up a book by ISBN Some book can't be search by ISBN, even though a search by title can find them, and they display the right ISBN |
ISBSearcher | blurb, main category in english | |
Label Emmaus | blurb, genres | |
OpenLibrary | blurb are not translated | Its is based on physical books, it is not really a book database |
Chasse Aux Livre | price only | it is not possible to parse with Selenium |
AbeBooks | Seems to have good french blurb | |
Fnac | blurb, second-hand price | |
Librarie Kleber | blurb, price | |
JustBooks | blurb (seldom), prices |
GoogleBooks has some inconsistencies: https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:9782744170812 says te publishedDate is 2004. But https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/DQUFSQAACAAJ says the publishedDate is 2005.
In the first response, we don't have a publisher, in the second we have. In the first response, the title use a big C for "Cité", but in the second, it use a small 'c'
Clone the 3 OpenCV repo:
- https://github.com/opencv/opencv.git (main repo)
- https://github.com/pixelshot91/open_cv_barcode_book_metadata_finder
(fork of https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib.git)
Contain the barcode contrib module - https://github.com/opencv/opencv_extra.git (optional, contain the test data to test OpenCV)
$ cd <open_cv>/
$ mkdir build
$ cd build/
build/ $ cmake -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=<opencv_contrib>/modules ..
You can test the barcode module with:
build/ $ make opencv_test_barcode
build/ $ OPENCV_TEST_DATA_PATH=<opencv_extra>/testdata/ bin/opencv_test_barcode
Follow the instruction of flutter_rust_bridge_template. Here is an extract
To begin, ensure that you have a working installation of the following items:
- Flutter SDK
- Rust language
flutter_rust_bridge_codegen
cargo package- Appropriate Rust targets for cross-compiling to your device
- For Android targets:
- Install cargo-ndk
- Install Android NDK 22, then put its path in one of the
gradle.properties
, e.g.:echo "ANDROID_NDK=.." >> ~/.gradle/gradle.properties
Follow this tutorial: https://pub.dev/packages/super_clipboard
Connect your phone.
Use
flutter run --flavor nodrive
If you don't specify a flavor, flutter will output this error:
Exception: Gradle build failed to produce an .apk file. It's likely that this file was generated under /Users/pattobrien/dev/fine_designs/template/src/frontend/build, but the tool couldn't find it.
(See flutter/flutter#22856 for issue about this cryptic message and the use of default flavor)
First connect your phone then mount its content on /media/phone.
You can mount your phone with adbfs-rootless
$ ./adbfs /media/phone/
$ ls /media/phone
... storage/ ...
Then launch Booky with:
$ flutter run --flavor noDrive -d linux
Some test require to simulate a camera. Booky use OBS virtual camera to mock the real camera.
OBS home page: https://obsproject.com/
OBS virtual camera need v4l2loopback module which may not be enabled.
If it is not enabled, you should see this log when launching OBS:
warning: v4l2loopback not installed, virtual camera disabled
And the button Start virutal camera
will not appear.
To enable it, run
sudo modprobe v4l2loopback
and relaunch OBS.
In the Android Virtual Device settings, select "webcam0" for both front and back camera
The android camera app will always rash, but Booky should work fine.
If in Booky the camera list is empty, stop OBS virtual cam, then execute:
echo "options v4l2loopback devices=1 video_nr=63 card_label='OBS Virtual Camera' exclusive_caps=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/v4l2loopback.conf
echo "v4l2loopback" | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/v4l2loopback.conf
sudo modprobe -r v4l2loopback
sudo modprobe v4l2loopback devices=63 video_nr=13 card_label='OBS Virtual Camera' exclusive_caps=1
then restart virtual cam and cold boot the emulator.
OBS does not provide a convenient way to create portable scene, because all scene contain absolute path to the sources.
To be able to use relative path, Booky use OBS Scene Transporter.
Use this fork version of OBS scene transporter as it also bundle the scripts along all the other resources
https://github.com/pixelshot91/obs-scene-transporter