Optical Character Recognition in Java

ocr_scanner 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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October 29th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Zoom it with Magnifying Glass

4Neurons Anytime have anybody felt like reading the online articles using magnifying glasses just because the font is very small or want to zoom a part of the picture ? Here we have a tool for you guys to magnify what you read which will give you a realistic lens simulation of the real world. The tool is called Magnifying Glass, really a fun tool created by 4Neurons.

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October 27th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

How Java Class files are different ?

JavaYesterday one of my friend asked me a question “What is the difference between java class file and c++ class file? What will happen if I provide c++ class file to JVM ?”. The question is really a good question so I thought of writing this article to explain the Myths of java class file and a small comparison with malicious or class files from C++.  These class files are completely different from byte code to class loading and linking. Okie lets get down to business. Now answering the question mentioned above, Java class files are specifically designed for JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and all the .class files will be loaded and safely executed inside JVM.

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October 24th, 2008 | Leave a Comment

How to redirect console output to file using Java?

Java ConsoleIn 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.

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October 23rd, 2008 | Leave a Comment

View mdb files without Microsoft Access

MS-Access 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 MDB Viewer Plus which can be used to view and edit MDB files without having Microsoft Access installed in your desktop.

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October 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments