[maemo-developers] Gsoc Idea Barcode Reader

[From: amit sethi]

I am a student interested in applying for gsoc 2009. And i am especially
excited by the idea of working on maemo.
There is an idea on http://wiki.maemo.org/GSoC_2009/Project_ideas of an
application in which an image of barcode is going to be used to check the
pricing and other information of a product .
Now as far as i see this project has following major steps:
Using an image library and doing edge detection to get the barcode.
Read the barcode according to UPC standards.
Using Amazon API for search.
Develop GUI for the tool.
Thus we require a module for image library, barcoding reading and GUI
Image library -PIL can be ported to maemo 2.0 read-
http://www.teemuharju.net/2006/08/10/python-imaging-library-for-maemo-20/
I don't think python has a tool for reading barcode but their is information
about the standards at http://www.barcodeisland.com/symbolgy.phtml
and thus a reader can be developed.
Amazon can be searched using pyamazon-
http://www.josephson.org/projects/pyamazon/
And GUI using pyGTK
As far as I know all these tools either work on maemo or can be made to
work.
Is there anything else i should take a look at before writing my
application. I would like to use python for developing this particular
application.
I would like to know from the mailing-list if this particular line of
thought would accomplish this work.

A-M-I-T S|S
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