Hi,
here is the app i'm looking for. I need a application in order to scan a receipt with my nexus camera, and get these informations :
restaurant name(shop name)
date
total amount without vat
total vat amount or vat% or total amount vat included
In order to get info, i'd like the app to have at least 4 fields that i can move on the picture to select the different items needed.
After an ocr, selected zones (name, date and amounts) should be kept in a XLS compatible format file(.csv for example)
It would also be a great feature to keep the disposition of the different fields under a scheme name, in order to select it directly and apply the ocr scan directly without positioning field. This feature is very useful if you're going every day at the same restaurant.
Well if someone like to do this, i'd like to be the main tester of this app, and we can even manage to put it on the market as i'm a freelance and have my own declared company.
Laurent
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Ok guys, was recently talking with a manager for a company I'm currently doing some contract work for and we were discussing ways to track inventory, both to and from in-store stock and at the off-site storage facility. Being the Android evangelist that I am, I of course mentioned how there's already a barcode scanning app out there, we just need to come up with the rest of the functionality. In a nutshell, here's what I'm after...
Main page is a database viewer (Excel style or similar) with tabs for Total Inventory, Stock Inventory and Storage Inventory
Menu functionality with options for Home (Back to main app view), Receive Inventory, Manage Inventory, Undo, Redo and Exit App
Receive Inventory opens a dialogue box first asking whether the user wishes to Add To Stock or Add To Storage, after which the Barcode Scanner app is called (No reason to reinvent the wheel, right?). Once scanned and the user confirms the information, a dialogue box should pop up asking for quantity. This should allow for negative numbers as well as positive, making it possible to add or remove items. Once quantity is entered, the app should update the Total Inventory database and the Stock or Storage database depending on what the user has selected
Manage Inventory opens a dialogue box with options for Stock to Storage or Storage to Stock., after which it should function identically to the Receive Inventory option (e.g. scan item, confirm information, enter quantity, update appropriate database(s))
Undo, Redo and Exit App should all be self-explanatory
The individual item information is very simple, just a quantity, style, color and size. I'm thinking now that Android OS has a tighter integration with Google Docs, some of that functionality should aid this project greatly! All the pieces are out there, just need someone with more know-how than I possess to put it all together and make it look nice. If you need any more clarification, please comment or PM me. If all goes according to plan, I'm hoping this could be a very lucrative venture for those involved...
So there you have it, that's what we're after, anybody feeling up to the challenge and want to make a name for themselves?
Hi,
So I started working as an intern and am asked to come up with an inventory system that is accessible online. We have a project we are working on and are constantly receiving shipments at our warehouse in Chicago. I am looking for some sort of a tagging software that is accessible from desktop, iPhone and Android smartphones. Along with that, it should have an inventory system, which can create a barcode or QR code for each item number we place in there. It should be available on all our employee's smartphones and computers. We can assign permission who can add/remove/edit each item. For example
We have an Oil pump. Our part number for the oil pump is P-355.
The app should be able to make a bar-code for "P-355". It should also allow us to add a description in the database along with quantity.
anyone have any idea of such software or app, I would greatly Appreciate it!!!
What website can I do app requests at?
Since I'm here, I'll list my idea here too:
I am always skeptical that when I pay for an item at the register, it may not be the price I saw it on the shelf.
I have a desire for a shopping cart app that will use the camera to scan the UPC, and allow me to type in the price - adding it to a list that shows my total expenditure for that shopping session.
Furthermore, I would like the app to remember the UPC and the price, so that next time I can reference what prices I bought that item at in the past. ....If getting ambitious, maybe it could even use keywords to reference other similar items bought (eg: When scanning white bread, the app will show historical pricing data for both that product, and wheat bread)
Ideally, it would hook into "Redlaser" or use OCR of the pricetag or something to get the name of the item, and possibly the price, to make input easy. It might even use GPS to know you are at walmart so that you can compare this walmart session with sessions you had at your supermarket.
Also, ideally, you could type in the units of the item (30 grams, for example) and the app would tell you the units/price ratio for future price comparison across multiple brands. Like this: http://imgur.com/lgDWkI8
If SUPER AMBITIOUS, you could start creating a database, similar to GasBuddy, and show historical pricing for all users nearby with timestamps (xxDogloverxx bought White Bread on Aug1st2012 at $3 at this Walmart. Tap here to see a price graph. Blue line shows this store, white line shows local average for this product. green line shows local average for this product category)
TLDR: Need a shopping CART app, would be nice if it showed historical data.
Whats the best avenue to request this be developed?
First, I hope this is the right place where I am posting the question. I am in the fire service and I would like to create an app for droid, that would read a basic text message and display a lookup information from a xls document For instance, the text message would display the address for a call. The app would use the information from the text and display a map page number and a short text phrase (running route to the address). I.e the text message says : House Fire: 101 Main Street. The app would look up that address in the excel document, and display the attached information, which would be 101 Main street: Left of Central Ave, Right on Martin Ave: Map 305. Any ideas on where to start? Or maybe app like this exists already? Thanks in advance!
Hi, it's a very broad question so it is very hard to answer. The answer depends on so many factors:
- Do you have any experience programming?
- Have you experience designing/developing mobile applications?
- Do you specifically need to use xls documents? (what you want is better suited to use built-in maps app. i.e. take the text from the text message, parse it a bit for keywords if you want different actions to be keyed in on, and then pass a search string to the maps app).
If you have no experience with developing mobile apps, I'd suggest going to google and searching for simple mobile development languages and frameworks. Stick to ones which use scripting languages. Or you can go to freelance websites and pay someone to make such an app for you. If its very simple, they shouldn't charge you more than a couple hundred.
slivingston said:
First, I hope this is the right place where I am posting the question. I am in the fire service and I would like to create an app for droid, that would read a basic text message and display a lookup information from a xls document For instance, the text message would display the address for a call. The app would use the information from the text and display a map page number and a short text phrase (running route to the address). I.e the text message says : House Fire: 101 Main Street. The app would look up that address in the excel document, and display the attached information, which would be 101 Main street: Left of Central Ave, Right on Martin Ave: Map 305. Any ideas on where to start? Or maybe app like this exists already? Thanks in advance!
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From what I am understanding here, you want something that will disperse Calls in the form of app alerts, with the two main purpose being alerting the recipient of the location, and also of the directions to said location... Yes?
to start with, figure out what exactly needs to be done and why and put it in writing
The first step would be to write down exactly what you're looking for this app to do and any other pertinent requirements (needs to work offline, speed requirements, hardware to support, etc.).
What you're describing so far sounds like a service provided by major online map providers such as Google, Bing, etc. If you have an address, you just key it in as a destination, and then if you have the fire station pre-filled in as your departure point, you'll get map directions generated right there. Is this what you're interested in? If so, then you can just open a browser when you receive a message and go to Google Maps or to the maps app directly from the phone and do it there.
If some of the details that you've provided are hard requirements (text message being an incoming SMS, .xls data store, precise data requirements, zero downtime tolerance, very fast response times, etc.) then the best place to start would be finding an acquaintance who can write phone apps (maybe some kid from a local high school or college?) and explain/show what you want done to them in detail and have them estimate how complex this work would be. After than you either hire that person to do the work or pressure them to do it for you as community service .
If you don't have the right people in your network or they're unwilling to do the hard lifting, then you should reach out to a contractor and have it done commercially. It's the same approach: explain what you need done exactly, then get an estimate, etc. Based on what you describe, it shouldn't be too complicated or expensive.
I don't recommend you do it on your own unless you have tons of free time and/or are specifically looking to learn how to write apps. You'll end up spending a lot more time than this project costs on the market, and if you're not really into it, it might seem quite frustrating for what seems like should be a very simple thing.
I want to develop a very basic app.
Main function: Show the value of a cryptocurrency
My problem: I don't know how to get the value of this cryptocurrency from this website and put it on my app. I want it so every time I push the refresh button it gets the newly updated value and prints in on the screen.
Hi,
To get values from a website, you can use a technique called screen scraping. To do that you can use Jsoup. A very good start point is to search for "Jsoup HTML Parser Hello World Examples" and check the mkyoung examples (I can not post links yet).
In order to examine the html you can use a web inspector like Firebug.
Jsoup is a nice library especially since it can handle fetching the document for you (not always desirable though) and has a familiar jQuery-like syntax. I've used it in projects before and it's pretty quick to get going with.