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What is the generic name / category / whatever of "...The_Cool_Piece_Of_Software..." in this scenario ?...
Here's what I want to do...
- Make a pic of a printed piece of paper with my phone
- Move that pic to my PC
- Use that file as input for The_Cool_Piece_Of_Software
- Wait five seconds
- Ta-Da
- I have the words from that piece of paper...
- In a text file (i.e., Ascii Text)
- In a Libre Office Document file (i.e., ODF format)
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OCR: Optical Character Recognition[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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C-P-User-3 wrote: I have the words from that piece of paper...
My phone, when it recognizes text on a pic, offers to OCR the pic for me. I've never tried it, but it might simply be the steps:
1. Take pic
2. let phone OCR it for you
3. open your email on your phone
4. paste and email yourself the text.
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Android ?
I have never seen that on mine.
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Then you need to install Google Lens.
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You might also look into OneNote's OCR capabilities. It should make your job really simple.
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Learning Selenium for a new job that starts on the 23rd...
0) When you call driver.Quit, it's supposed to kill the driver process (running in windows), but it doesn't. This statement is true for both chrome and firefox. I had to write code to kill the associated processes for both the driver and the browser. What's worse, the chrome driver (of which multiple are spawned) will throw a Access Denied exception when you try to kill the chromedriver process, so you have to eat exceptions thrown by the Process.Kill() method top avoid failing the test simply because you're killing their freakin' process spawnage. (Firefox does not exhibit this problem, FWIW).
1) Selenium does not like element IDs that contain hyphens, so instead of doing By.Id(), I have to do By.CssSelector() to find an element by ID. Lesson - always use ByCssSelector for finding by ID.
I came up with a TestBase class that handles the process cleanup, a TestMaster class (derived from TestBase) that contains the browser-agnostic test methods, and finally, two browse-specific test classes that inherit from TestMaster.
The test method in TestMaster simply navigates to my own home page, makes sure the title is correct, and then finds/clicks a menu item, and checks to see if a specific section exists. Simple, but a decent exercise. This means I can test for pretty much any browser that is configured in the BaseTest class - I'm running Win7 with Firefox and Chrome installed in a VM, so I don't have Edge, but I could add Opera and Brave if there are drivers for them.
I suppose that despite its quirks, Selenium is a decent automation test tool. I think I'm going to see if the @Marc-Clifton Fluent Web API Integration Testing[^] can be wrangled into this stuff...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Just curious, is this a new job within the same organization, or a completely new organization?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Completely new. At my current job, they keep making noise about doing unit and automated ui testing, but once again, our alarming lack of personnel and complete lack of ability to do proper agile/scrum, capped off by over-the-top security restrictions prevents the team from adopting any tools to perform that kind of testing. It’s maddening.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah, I've been there, done that, for DHS/CBP.
"Work smarter, not harder!" Oh, and you're not allow to write script for anything... 
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#realJSOP wrote: I think I'm going to see if
Well dang, that'd be cool. Let me know how the wrangling goes.
And yes, Selenium, when I've played around with it, is temperamental.
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This one: The Lounge[^]
Everything went as expected, except that one thing I can't fix myself and I don't know who can 
Apparently, someone deleted some DNS records so I can't hook up my custom domain name anymore.
It worked for DEV, TEST and another PROD service, but not the one they use first thing Monday morning.
The person I had on stand-by has access to pretty much all systems, except DNS.
Other people who weren't on stand-by and who might've helped went straight to voicemail.
Sent out an email to IT support saying these DNS records have to be added.
Let's hope they'll make it before 9AM Monday morning (yeah, right) 
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It was you! couldn't remember who it was, thanks for that book...
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Two points (I didn't read the book, just looking at Amazon page):
1. Multiplatform Assembly Programming - such thing doesn't exist. I am a bit skeptic when an author promises to learn me non-existent thing.
2. Many reviews are talking about "retro programming", which looks like a hobby and not something that can help in real work.
Again, this opinion is based only on the book review.
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11917640 Member wrote: Multiplatform Assembly Programming - such thing doesn't exist.
I'd disagree. There are a lot of aspects of assembler language programming that are largely independent of the target architecture.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I hate to be difficult, but it seems like C (or - fight me - even C++) is a better fit for this.
I mean, sure there are some instances, like doing SIMD where dropping to assembly might be a win, but that's going to be platform specific code, otherwise there's no point.
Seems to me that dropping to assembly within one of those, while generating most of the bytecode you otherwise need using C is far more "cross-platformable"
I didn't read the book, so is there a reason the approach I just outlined is insufficient?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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You are an embedded person (nearly said guy!) the only times I have used assembly is when I needed real speed reading a port.
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I've been an embedded engineer for my whole career and the only time I dropped into assembly language in the last 20 years has been to use a specific assembly language instruction in the TI DSP I was writing code for. It was a 'saturate' instruction. It took a 40bit accumulator value and limited it to a 16bit value. Other than that it's been C/C++ for me for at least 2 decades.
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I fear you misunderstood my point. I was merely suggesting that there are aspects of assembler programming that are largely independent of the target platform/instruction set.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I think I understand your point, it's just that it still seems more suitable to me to use C or C++, only dropping to asm for platform specific things. Despite assembly being somewhat similar across different platforms, sometimes, there are enough differences that it can get hairy fast. C does a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of papering over different machine word sizes, alignment issues, and other things that assembly just doesn't.
So while you're not wrong, it still seems better to me to use something like C, and then drop to asm within that if absolutely necessary.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Please do not compare C/C++ to assembly language. One ALWAYS sits on the back of the other -- that is the only comparison. I am sitting here wondering how and when it became acceptable to program hardware with ANY compiled language!! 
I know all of the assembly languages in the books. ALL have enough similarities with one another that it is quite possible to learn them all. My main point is that you cannot compare assembly language to a compiled language for several glaring reasons -- no matter how hard you try. This isn't about who shouts the loudest (not saying you were shouting  ).
modified 26-Oct-22 21:01pm.
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Far from comparing them, I'm contrasting them. C and C++ can do multiplatform code in a way that ASM cannot.
Bert Novilla wrote: I am sitting here wondering how and when it became acceptable to program hardware with ANY compiled language!!
If you're not joking, I cannot take you seriously from a professional perspective. Sorry.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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