I have nothing useful to add, but I too applaud your hubris. I can't believe you have something buggy, which implies that you have functionality that only works *sometimes*. And that's a lot more than I'd expect from this idea. You're either crazy or stupid or just ahead of your time. (likely the latter)

If you'd used Perl6 though this would be a snap, isn't that right monks?

fine. i can't help but think when i write. here's something useful: I bet all the labels or the tags on your merchandise have more intricate patterns that maybe you'll be able to more reliably "parse". Say, a shirt, snap a picture of just the label up on the back of the neck, grab a little background of the shirt too (in case you have a few shirts with the same labels). That image should result in some "hash", which you'd be more likely to get back when you snapped the shirt's label again later, since there's less "complications" in that picture. In other words, the label changes less as you fling the shirt around in real life (shirts get wrinkled and have different colored tables or objects underneath them, etc). I think the "value" in this idea boils down to: don't snap a picture of the whole object when just it's most unique tiny patch of the object will do. I'd imagine that from picture to picture, there are fewer differences when you deal with smaller areas. Of course that's almost exactly what barcodes are.. a whole bunch of unique 'areas' to affix to your, otherwise identical, crap.

And let us know how this turns out, you crazy merchant


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In reply to Re: Help improving image recognition application to track store purchases. by qbxk
in thread Help improving image recognition application to track store purchases. by zli034

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