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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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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
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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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
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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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
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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Ask your Facebook Friends
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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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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
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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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
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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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
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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Does google books have full books? i was looking for the sin war: birthrights on google books and i found it and it lets you read almost 320 pages but it says "some pages are omitted from this book preview" but it looks like its the entire book unless...
Started by alex on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yahoo):
For a second i though it said
does google books have full.
No all are not, you will have to buy.
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Google Books lists Bill Ayers as author of Dreams from My Father
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...my_father.html
Interesting.
Started by dadx4 on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at gatorcountry):
I mean, i already proved that 'google books' did not list ayers as an author BOOKS"
lmao.
The topic of your thread:
here's 'google books', listing for 'dreams of my father'
http rag doesn't count.
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I have a Google+ page about a book I wrote. My book is also listed at Google books. On Facebook I was able to create a “tab application” to let people preview my book directly from my page (thanks to Google Books Preview Wizard) and it looks really
Started by CKir on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at google):
Please use "Send feedback" tool under gear menu to suggest this feature. .
People need to visit Google books to view your book.
This feature is currently not available on Google+.
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