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Google as a poor man’s OCR

Friday, February 13, 2009

I was reading a couple days ago a post comparing different OCR programs. Turns out that Google’s own proprietary OCR engine is often better under some circumstances. It seems they’ve adjusted it to use specific handling for many more use cases.
So, I’ve scanned the first two pages of my upcoming semester book. You can read [...]

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Cloned Puppies

Saturday, January 31, 2009

During Winter break, I’ve been studying with a teacher 4 days a week during January. Additionally, I’ve been watching some movies in Chinese, generally in the evening before going to bed. My theory is that if I hear a lot of Chinese and go to bed with that the last thing I do (rather than [...]

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Finals over, what to do…

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

With finals done, I’ve got time to catch up on a few projects this week. Here’s a list of things I “must” get done
1) A web migration project. Moving a site into Joomla. I’m learning Joomla as part of this process, which for me, is usually the easiest way to pick up new [...]

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Google gadgets

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Google has an interesting “personal” page where you can add tabs and arrange small sections on each tab page. It also lets you create your own “gadgets” (the name they use for each publishing square.
Anyway, I made up a simple Chinese vocab list. Perhaps it will let me remember words that aren’t in my [...]

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Spring 2007 HIT Class Schedule

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Here’s my class schedule. Every level (A-F with many grades having a half level called “+”) has a different schedule.
Key:

?? Tingli Listening comprehension
?? Zonghe Comprehensive (reading, speaking, grammar)
?? Yuedu Reading
?? Yufa Calligraphy
I need to take a bus each way. This adds about 20-25 minutes each way.
So, I take a shower about 6:00am or so, and [...]

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