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MongoDB is known as a NoSQL database, which uses a JSON-like document structure by key-value pairs. Comparing to the relational database like MySQL, MongoDB is easier and more scalable. Especially when processing big and complex data, MongoDB can perform faster and better. In this tutorial, let’s take a glimpse of...
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A couple of weeks ago, I started to use Camtasia Studio to create video tutorials via screencast. Usually, I’d like to make a full screen capture, and upload the produced videos to YouTube. However, the video qualities were not as good as I expected. So I googled the quality issue,...
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When asking UI designers the question “which raster graphics editor do you prefer”, probably most of the answers are Adobe Photoshop, which seems to be the professionals’ best choice. But as a developer, who only needs to do some simple image editing, I’d like to choose Gimp, which is totally...
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GWT (Google Web Toolkit), a development toolkit that allows developers to build complicated JavaScript Web applications in Java, has been used by many outstanding products, such as Google AdSense, Google AdWords, and so on. It is open source, and completely free. In this post, I’d like to share how to...
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If you have upgraded to the latest HTML5 version of DWT(Dynamic Web TWAIN), probably you have noticed that it only supports 1D barcode reading. Although the 2D barcode SDK has not been officially released yet, it is coming soon. Today, I’d like to demo how to build a Web application...
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Before releasing a Windows software, which is not open-source, we have to package everything that we have done in a Windows installer. In this post, I’d like to share how to build a Windows MSI installer with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Creating a Basic MSI Installer Click Setup and Deployment,...
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Comparing to iOS, one of my favorite Android features is that Android supports USB peripherals. It’s fairly convenient to connect USB devices to Android smartphones via OTG cables. Therefore, no matter whether your Android phones, which probably only have 16G built-in storage, have SD card slot or not, it’s still...
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Previously, I shared an article Making an Android OCR Application with Tesseract. This time, I’d like to share how to build the tesseract OCR library with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 on Windows. Building Tesseract I’ve tried different ways to set up the building environment, and finally concluded that the most...
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A Pipe, which has two ends, is a section of shared memory that used for communication between processes. It allows processes to read and write information from each end. In this tutorial, I’d like to share how to build the pipe communication for multiple threads on Windows. Pipi Communication between Two Threads...
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Tesseract is a well-known open source OCR engine that released under the Apache License 2.0. In this tutorial, I’d like to share how to build the OCR library for Android, as well as how to implement a simple Android OCR application with it. Ads Powered by Dynamsoft Tesseract Android Tools...