now that I work in library software :) ... Fetch data from ISBN is not so difficult, depends on the provider you want. The most used protocol around the world is Z39.50 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z39.50 to get MARC formatted catalogs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIMARC. I don't know if there's Smalltalk implementations of these standards.
If you don't need high level of details, Amazon, Library Thing, ... have good catalogs with modern web services to access them. For the webcam / scan part, I don't know what we have in Smalltalk. You need OCR tools... Laurent Laffont On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote: > I really like the idea of scripting and gluing together behavior. > What I would love to be able to do is to > use the webcam of my machine to scan a book ISBN number > and fetch all the data from a given provider. > Does anybody have an idea how we could plug all that together. > > Stef > > > On Feb 14, 2010, at 8:45 PM, laurent laffont wrote: > > > Thanks for help and .... enjoy :) > http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/2010/02/rest-xml-parsing-and-photos.html > > > > > > Laurent Laffont > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:20 PM, laurent laffont < > laurent.laff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Make sure that the stream is binary: > > SketchMorph fromStream: (' > http://lh3.ggpht.com/_BvlW9mJ6MFc/R-p4PtCKitI/AAAAAAAAA1A/jySYN6rz_pc/DSC00801.JPG' > asUrl retrieveContents contents asByteArray readStream) > > > > > > Levente > > > > > > It works ! Thank you ! You've just saved a screencast :) > > > > Laurent Laffont > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Laurent Laffont > > > > > > 2010/2/13 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com> > > > > I think he talks about this one > > > > http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook/ > > > > > > 2010/2/13 laurent laffont <laurent.laff...@gmail.com> > > > > Which web page ? > > > > Laurent Laffont > > > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < > > stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote: > > > > laurent have a look in the network chapter of the new blue book > > (collective book available on web page) > > because I do not remember but you could find some snippets going in the > > same sense. > > > > Stef > > > > On Feb 13, 2010, at 3:29 PM, laurent laffont wrote: > > > > (SketchMorph fromStream: > > ('http://code.google.com/p/pharo/logo' > > asUrl retrieveContents contentStream)) openInWorld > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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