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