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Compiling your C/C++ and Obj C/C++ Code with “clang” (LLVM)
clang is a recent addition to the landscape of development within the C family. Though GCC is a household name (well, in my household), clang is built on LLVM, a modular and versatile compiler...
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Displaying C++ vtables
A vtable is a mapping that allows your C++ application properly reconcile the function pointers for the base classes that have virtual methods and the child classes that override those methods (or do...
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OCR a Document with C++
There is an OCR library developed by HP and maintained by Google called Tesseract. It works immediately, and does not require training. Building it is trivial. What’s more trivial is just installing it...
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OCR a Document by Section
A previous post described how to use Tesseract to OCR a document to a single string. This post will describe how to take advantage of Tesseract’s internal layout processing to iterate through the...
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Use TightOCR for Easy OCR from Python
When it comes to recognizing documents from images in Python, there are precious few options, and a couple of good reasons why. Tesseract is the world’s best OCR solution, and is currently maintained...
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Scriptable C++
What if C++ were a scripting language that you could eval from your native C++? ChaiScript: http://chaiscript.com Example (from the homepage): #include <chaiscript/chaiscript.hpp> std::string...
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Embedded SQL
A nostalgic visit from the past: Embedded SQL, where you can inject live SQL directly into your C code. EMBEDDED SQL IN C Introduction to Pro*C The second refers to such development using Oracle....
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Best Argument-Processing for .NET/C#
After trying NDesk.Options and Fluent, I am nothing but impressed with CLAP (“Command-Line Auto-Parser”). It completely relies on reflection and parameter attributes (usually just one or two) to...
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C#: Parsing a CSPROJ (Project) File Using XPath
Using XPath in C# can be done several different ways through a several built-in libraries, and none of them work unless you are a lot more familiar with the file than would be required in many other...
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MSBuild/C#: How to Manage the Application Version Using a Text-File
Overview C# applications have an “AssemblyInfo.cs” file that describe the assembly and executable versions of a project. Unfortunately, sometimes it is not possible to access this from the code. Other...
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