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I am new to Android development and looking for beginner to intermediate level books on Google and Android development.
Can you recommend any such books?
Started by naeem on
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I've also read good things about the books sold by commonsware.com and will get you off to the right start:
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430215968
I found Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development....
Who are new to Android.
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A colleague of mine from work showed me a link to "Beginning Scala" on google books. I was able to browse a lot of the book, I think all of it is there. What's the deal with google books? Are they free to read ? How come I was able to browse through that...
Started by Geo on
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If a book is 100% complete.
I imagine they have the same kind of deal -- it's essentially a good advert for the book as it allows you to know get an actual example of it's content.
On that.
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I've got a file with some book data in MARC format, of which some lines are ISBNs. I'd like to replace these lines with the Google Books ID of that ISBN, if it exists. Here's the code so far, which just ends up removing the lines:
perl -pe "s#ISBN(.*)...
Started by l0b0 on
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Get_google_id_for....
The code below is slightly hampered by my lack_checksum ); use LWP::Simple; use XML::Simple; while ( <> ) { s/ISBN:([0-9]+)/'Google Books ID:' .
Instead, use the Google Book Search API .
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Hello,
I have been asked to publish a complete book online similar way Google Books does? i.e. it's viewable and printable but not download-able.
Is the process is basically "high quality scanning"? are there any open source solution to "mass generation...
Started by wailer on
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Don't know much about Google Books to stick to traditional methods.....
Unfortunately Google uses a patented technique for scanning it's books, so you will probably have Imaging Library would seem to be the best tool for this.
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I'm curious if anyone understands, knows or can point me to comprehensive literature or source code on how Google created their popular passage blocks feature. However, if you know of any other application that can do the same please post your answer ...
Started by dde on
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Just a guess, but perhaps Google Books looks for quote marks/differences in formatting with the quote or can be found in the bibliography at the end of the book, so maybe google parses only if the corpus isn't in a....
Quotes.
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My current code
#!/bin/bash #w=$2 #e=$3 #r=$4 #t=$5 #o=$5 # prepend="" append="" case "$1" in -h) echo 'Usage: google [-{hxdw}] [<arg>]' echo ' -h: show help.' echo ' -x: search for "<arg> is"' echo ' -d: search for "define:<arg>"' echo...
Started by Masi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Eleven81 has it right....
Try:
if [ "$1" = "-b" ]; then open "http://www.books.google.com/search${query}" else open "http://www.google.com/search${query}" fi
Edit: Added spaces before and after the comparison operator, thanks to Dennis Williamson 's comment .
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One challenging topic in computer vision is processing document scans. Typically this involves a number of steps, like noise removal, color analysis, binarization, text block identification, OCR, and then maybe some context analysis and correction.
I'...
Started by lzqjdkkhns on
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I believe Google uses the Tesseract OCR engine in conjunction with another tool.
That Google's approach is to just throw everything through the automated process, ocr anything that looks for their purposes, IMO.
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On the heels of calibre : Google Books Downloader allows you to get PDF or JPG files of Google Books. In tests so far works pretty well, although it doesn't support embedded text in PDF (which would make PDFs searchable as they are on the Google Books...
Started by Andrew Lee on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at portablefreeware):
The home site of this is given by Softpedia
The Softpedia... .
The Softpedia URL you gave is for Google Book Downloader.
Http://www.gbooksdownloader.com the home of Google Books Downloader
Addictive Tips clearly.
As unsafe is ...
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My book is avail on Kindle but I want to make it avail for sale on more ebook aplications. If I upload to google books can I sell it there? how is the money divided? How do I do it?
Started by Lberle on
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I get my book uploaded on Google books??? Well, I have an eBook and I sell directly from my website, In order to have your books listed for sale as Google eBooks, you first have to participate in the Google ....
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There is some issue going on here. I am not the only person this is happening to. My books show up under Google Books, but are not in the Google Ebook Store.
Started by wintrckscfi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at google):
If your book is marked as 'Sellable' of weeks now, but they still are not appearing....
Hi wintrckscfi , You can check its ebooks status on the 'Google Editions' tab of you account (just click on the 'Show ebooks' link).
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