Making a Simple OCR Android App using Tesseract

Posted on November 9, 2011 in Android | 46 comments

This post tells you how you can easily make an Android application to extract the text from the image being captured by the camera of your Android phone! We’ll be using a fork of Tesseract Android Tools by Robert Theis called Tess Two. They are based on the Tesseract OCR Engine (mainly maintained by Google) and Leptonica image processing libraries.

Minimum Learning Program in School

Posted on November 3, 2011 in Education | 3 comments

Our school has introduced a new program named “Minimum Learning Program”, in which teachers basically give you the questions that would come in the Unit Test (weekly tests, not the term-end exams) which could help you get get you the passing marks. This program is already in effect and in my opinion, this system is flawed from the bottom up.

SiriHome

Posted on October 30, 2011 in Thoughts | 4 comments

I was recently reading Steve Jobs’s biography by Walter Isaacson and I read that he had a music system in his whole house, and also used it as a microphone, to hear family’s discussions until his father discovered that and made him stop doing it. Now. You would have made the rest of the post by yourself, by reading that title and the first sentence — exactly that. When Siri wasn’t there, sound could be played on the stereos and sound could be heard from the stereos. But what if we have a helper connected to that speaker, who gets the input, performs some search and says back the results? What’s the time, Siri? Siri, how’s the weather today? Where can I get a cup of coffee Siri? Just from your desk, or while reading the newspaper, think about it!

ps. Doesn’t necessarily need to be Siri, but that’s an interesting piece of software.

If I don’t write on my blog, who would?

Posted on October 27, 2011 in Announcements | 0 comments

I have been asking this question to myself lately – “If I don’t write on my blog, then who would?”. I started this blog to mainly blog on tech-related things and announce the projects or plugins I make or work on – then, the tagline was “bbPress, WordPress and Other Things”. But now I’ve started to blog upon other things, topics like my own life and hence the tagline of this blog is now “On Life, Open Source and Other Things”. Although you won’t find my writing to be of that quality which would get you intrigued to read each and every word of my blog, mainly because I would just blog to put my point across.

Sweet Sixteen

Posted on October 20, 2011 in Announcements | 10 comments

So it seems like I’ve revolved around the sun 16 times, without appreciating the fact that Earth takes such an effort in transporting us. The same day, Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final and Columbia 18 was launched into orbit as some history sites tell me, but I was really too young at that time to understand those things (I do now, though! ). Put another way, I’ve turned 16 years old also dubbed as “sweet sixteen”.

Announcing Discover I Foundation

Posted on October 8, 2011 in Announcements | 2 comments

I’m proud to announce a new organisation named Discover I, which helps in bringing out the hidden talent among the underprivileged children to the real world. Visit the website to know more or like the Facebook page to show your support.

Deactivated My Facebook Account

Posted on August 23, 2011 in Social Networking | 4 comments

I have deactivated my Facebook account, following mass requests from my mind and I don’t plan to reactivate it – am happy without it. I’d probably join Google+ when it removes its age limit. I’ve already migrated all my contacts to Gmail and pictures/videos to Picasa. I have also resumed coding – 3 patches and a plugin in a day is a good start. My exams are near too (starting ~September 10), so there would be a bit pause on coding at that time.

Update: I’ve permanently deleted it.