Optical Character Recognition in Java
Optical Character Recognition popularly known as OCR, is a technology that helps in translating images carrying text (printed text Images) in to text characters. OCR uses pattern recognition to extract the text out of the images and this technology can help you to scan your text book to a editable document in your computer with ease. OCR has now part of commercial business extending its hands in the line of data entry and bill processing giving higher work productivity. There are lot of software available in the market to do the job but when it comes to programming in C, C++ or especially in java one can find limited libraries to achieve the same programmatically.
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In Java printing the program output to console for debugging purposes and sometimes for understanding the program flow is very common. Sometimes programmers feel comfortable if they are able to redirect the run-time exceptions and SOPs (System.out.println) to a file for future reference. Today I am going to write about redirecting console outputs and run-time exceptions to a file. One can always argue that we can use logging frameworks like log4j, java util logging by writing custom OutputStream class and using SOPs (System.out.println) is a bad practice. I too agree with that but this is just trick for beginners to understand the basics of java and one should always avoid using SOPs while writing applications.
MDB file popularly known as Microsoft Access Database files and is one of the widely used database and quite handy desktop database for developing small applications in windows. Generally Microsoft Access comes as a part of Microsoft Office package and it needs a license to run. One cannot view or edit Microsoft Access database(mdb) without having Access installed in the machine. Today I will talk about a tool called