Friday, October 15, 2004
REALbasic is still pretty cool!
Finally got around to updating my aging copy of REALbasic - a development environment that I haven't used in years, but used to think was pretty cool...
Well, it still is - and in some ways even cooler!
I built a cross-platform (Mac OS X, Windows and Linux!) version of our PDFMerge application as a test, which included having to write an RB plugin to link ou C++ code base for PDF rendering and processing to the RB GUI application. It took me about a day - most of which was spent relearning the object model, API, etc.
Hardest part of the development was trying to remember NOT to end lines with a ; - too many years of C/C++ and Java!
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Low cost OCR
On one of the many lists that I subscribe to, during a discussion about OCR software, someone recommended TOCR - an extremely inexpensive, no frills but quite accurate OCR application for Windows. You even get full (VB) source to the viewer application - though not the OCR engine.
Interesting possibilities...