[maemo-developers] Gsoc Idea Barcode Reader

[From: Valerio Valerio]

Hi,

2009/3/22 amit sethi <amit.pureenergy at gmail.com>:
>
> 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.

In my opinion you covered the major development steps above, but for
the GSoC project, first I would like to see a  good barcode
recognition framework that can be used in maemo or in other linux
environments, that framework will be very handy for a lot of possible
applications. If some time remain, the student can also develop a
application GUI, as referred by you.

The work already done in the maemo-barcode[1] project can be useful here too.

[1] - https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemo-barcode/

Best regards,

-- 
Valério Valério

http://www.valeriovalerio.org


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