Anyone know of a good OCR / Tesseract for Appcelerator? - titanium

In need of an OCR module that I can use with my app, but having trouble running the only one I could fine (from 3 years ago :)
Thanks!

This Appcelerator marketplace module might help you: https://marketplace.appcelerator.com/apps/18033#!overview

Here are two modules based on Tesseract:
ocrdroid (android)
TiTesseract (ios)
My experience with Tesseract is that it should be extensively trained (and possibly modified) to achieve reasonable precision. Image processing will likely be a key part of the workflow.
Instead of Tesseract, MyScript's SDK may be a possible OCR solution that's also optimized for handwriting, etc. I'm not sure if they have a Ti module pre-built.

Disclosure: I run this service.
Consider http://ocrestful.com if your use-case doesn't demand you be able to do it offline.

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What software would you recommend for making a simple list-creating app for iOS and Android?

So, my aunt wants me to make an app to help people create lists and be more organized. It would also have pre-made lists and tips that occasionally appear. We both want it to be for iOS and Android. Does anyone have recommendations for what software I could use to create something like that? One other thing to note: I can't use XCode because I'm not a mac user. Thank you for your input.
This question depends a lot in preference and personal opinion...
Unity is my personal favorite tool to deploy in multiple platforms and even if its a game engine I have used it for simple user interface aplications with very little effort and bug count... the withdrawals are that you use a "lot" to make so little... the whole physics engine does nothing and the apk weigths at least 20Mb ... but its a very simple tool that could do the job in a couple of days having little experience and thats what i like about it.... theres also Xamarin C# , Android studio... React.. Depends a lot on your liking...and personal preference.
If I were you, I would go for React Native it is a mobile apps building framework using only Javascript!
Here is a showcase of real-world apps using RN: Who's using React Native?

Alternatives for Using MATLAB Files and Deploying Them into DLL's

I have some source code for the BaNa Noise Resilient Pitch Detection Algorithm downloaded here, and I am planning to use the code they provided as a library for a mobile app I'm making. It's written in Objective-C for MATLAB and so I'd probably need to deploy it to a DLL to be able to use it for external applications.
The only thing is that I'm a student, and I don't really have the funds to purchase MATLAB just to be able to work with this algorithm, and so I'm downloading Octave, which was a suggested alternative. This should be able to make working and editing the code for my research possible, but my concern is if I can deploy the code into usable libraries for the application in which I'm going to make using the Unity Game Engine.
I'm not sure if the direction I'm going at will bring me to a dead-end or not, so I'd like to ask for insights regarding this.
What I have now:
1) Source code in MATLAB (.m files)
2) Octave (currently downloading, I'm not even sure if it has the built-in methods I need)
What I plan to do:
1) Use Octave to edit code and test out if the code I have works
2) Deploy it to a DLL file (Is this even possible with Octave?)
3) Use that DLL in Unity3D
Would you guys have any suggestions, alternative workarounds, or foreseeable problems I may encounter with this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Justin
Depending on what functionality from MATLAB (and especially toolboxes), the code should run just fine in Octave, maybe with some minor modifications. If however, the code relies heavily on some toolbox functionality that has not been implemented in Octave, then you have a fair amount of recoding to do.
There is not easy way that I know of to generate a DLL from Octave. Having said that, have a look at How do I create a simple Octave distributable without installing Octave and this section of the Octave documentation on the subject of generating standalone programs from Octave, it might point you in the right direction.

Building Air Apps (Desktop) with Haxe - Steps

I'm a developer in ActionScript and while I'm watching Haxe as a language to be used by me, since besides the resemblance ActionScript, still be possible to make applications with output to flash yet.
However I have a question about building AIR packages. When I search about building AIR applications with Haxe, the search does not bring satisfactory results.
I ask, after the codification and development of the code (in Haxe), how is it possible to transform what was built into an AIR package?
Thank you!
It isn't a very popular topic it seems. Anyhow, as far as I remember my experience building it some years ago, what you need would be:
If you need some air-specific APIs then you should write externs for them. There is this existing project, but it would need a bit of update as it was written for flash9, however, I believe it is doable in like 1 hour of work.
Compile to flash.
Write all the manifests you need for Air. (Sorry, don't remember what exactly it needs.)
Use this guides to package(also test and sign) your apps.
Note: If you want to go the same way you did before, you could compile haxe to as3 and be happy. However, I wouldn't recommend this method due to loosing speed and probable implications which may arrive.

ASIHTTP equivalent for OSX

Im looking to upload xml files to a php server that range from 1mb to 50mb. As far as I can tell ASIHTTP was the code to use back in the day but Im looking for a newer framework to work with.
The ASIHTTP website recommended AFNetworking, but I was wondering if there were any other good ones out there I should look into. Im VERY new to cocoa programming and have started off learning with ARC enable so something compatible with that would be ideal also.
https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/
Right now AFNetworking is the best choice. I've used it and it's pretty good. I recommend it!
If you're looking at recommendations that are a few years old suggesting you use a third party library, you might consider taking a second look at what the OS itself provides. NSURLConnection still isn't the best solution for everyone, but it's improved much over the last few iOS & OS X releases.

Which library to install on target?

I’m new to Qt Quick. So, This might sound like a dumb question. But I’m struggling with this.
I want to develop a complete UI for my embedded system using Qt Quick. So, I need QML to run my system.
Now, which library to install on my target embedded linux system.
I ‘ve seen this page : http://qt-project.org/downloads but it shows the library with 228MB! which will float my system size abnormally. I expect my system to be around 50MB only! I think this comes with lot of things which I may not want.
I may use qml, for internet browsing purpose parts of webkit (webkit module for qtquick)
xml.
So, Can you please help me which to install? & how??
Thanks & Regards
inblueswithu
Check http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qt-embedded-install.html for a initial documentation.
Please note, that this will install everything, meaning all Qt modules. You might be able to strip some of them away, also you might now need all image plugins. However, as a start this should work for you.