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Python OCR on the Mac?
by Bill Janssen Oct. 23, 2005

Oct. 23, 2005

Hi. I'm looking for a way of doing OCR from Python on a Mac, preferably without paying for anything in particular. In Windows, if you have Office installed, there's an included ActiveX OCR component you can access nicely from Python to OCR page images. I'm wondering if I can do something similar from Python on the Mac if I have Office 2004 installed? Or is there another package easily accessible from Python that might already be there? Thanks! Bill

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Py2App and GTK+
by Kevin Conaway Oct. 22, 2005

Oct. 22, 2005

The Py2App site suggested that there was some kind of workaround that must be used in order to get Py2App to work with GTK+ applications. Could anyone explain this workaround to me? Any other helpful suggestions on packaging GTK+ applications for OSX would be appreciated. Thanks, Kevin

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] make new object on Mac
by has Oct. 22, 2005

Oct. 22, 2005

Zhi Peng wrote: >Did any of you make a new object such as document, textframe etc by using MacPython appscript for Adobe InDesign CS2? > >For example, I have document object docObj > >should I use > >newPage = docObj.add() or docObj.make .... or something else Use the 'make' command to create new objects ('add' only applies to existing objects). Figuring out the appropriate insertion location reference for the 'at' parameter is usually the tricky bit, as the rules vary from application to application and most vendors woefully under-document such details. (I believe Adobe provide some good scripting documentation for ID though, so check that out if you've not already done so.) It sometimes takes a bit of experimentation to find a reference form that the application will accept; some are more finicky than others, though ID should be one of the better ones. For example, to insert a new page after all the existing pages, it'll be something like: id = app('InDesign') docObj = id.documents[1] id.make(new=k.page, at=docObj.pages.end) Tip: For convenience, appscript also allows you to write that last line as: docObj.pages.end.make(new=k.page) See the section on special cases in the 'Application Commands' chapter of the appscript manual. To insert a new page between the first and second pages, it'd be something like: docObj.pages[1].after.make(new=k.page) And so on. (I don't have a copy of ID to hand to check these, but hopefully they're correct, or at least point you in the right direction. If not, hopefully there's an ID user here who can provide the correct version.) HTH has -- http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/

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make new object on Mac
by Zhi Peng Oct. 21, 2005

Oct. 21, 2005

Hi! Everyone Did any of you make a new object such as document, textframe etc by using MacPython appscript for Adobe InDesign CS2? For example, I have document object docObj should I use newPage = docObj.add() or docObj.make .... or something else Thanks Zhi --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

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packagemanager for Tiger
by thor Oct. 20, 2005

Oct. 20, 2005

hi there I need to install Pygame and PyOpenGL on Tiger. I used to use the PackageManager from MacPython to install all the dependencies but when I went to check MacPython now, there is no installer for Tiger. Can I just use the Panther installer safely then? Or is there a newer/better version of MacPython and packagemanager that I could use. I saw info on PackMan on the wiki, but the link was dead. cheers thor

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] packagemanager for Tiger
by Henning.Ramm＠mediapro-gmbh.de Oct. 20, 2005

Oct. 20, 2005

> Yes, I've installed SDL and Numeric using Fink, I've installed PyObjC > and trying to install pygame in the Terminal. If you use Fink, you must use Fink for everything; at the moment you've probably several different Python installations of whose none has all required modules. It's normally better to install everything off Bob's site and the rest manually in Terminal while making sure that "Bob's Python" is first in your PATH. Best regards, Henning Hraban Ramm Südkurier Medienhaus / MediaPro Support/Admin/Development Dept.

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Fund raising for SPE on Mac Os X is great success!!
by SPE Stani's Python Editor Oct. 20, 2005

Oct. 20, 2005

Hi, I'd like to thank everyone who contributed, especially Richard Brown from Dartware <http://www.dartware.com/> and Rick Thomas. I'm highly impressed that the smallest user base of SPE collected the largest donation ever to SPE. Now it's my turn to impress the SPE Mac users. As such the light is green for SPE on the Mac. First I will buy a Mac and get used to it. Then I will optimize SPE for the Mac and try to release simultaneously. Be patient as this will take some time. The next releases ( 0.7) will be based on work I did before. But from 0.8 releases SPE will also be tested & developed on Mac. Please subscribe to the mailing list as a developer<https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/python-spe-dev>, user <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/python-spe-users> and/or mac user <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/python-spe-mac>. Of course donations <http://www.stani.be/python/spe/blog/sm_donate> are still welcome. Stani http://pythonide.stani.be http://pythonide.stani.be/manual/html/manual.html

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Adding a track to an iTunes playlist (appscript)
by has Oct. 20, 2005

Oct. 20, 2005

David wrote: >>>You need something like: >>> >>>a_track = app('Itunes').playlists['Library'].tracks[0] >>>a_playlist = app('Itunes').playlists['Whatever'] >>>app('Itunes').duplicate(a_track, to=a_playlist) >>> >> >> >>Yup. Or: >> >>a_track = app('Itunes').playlists['Library'].tracks[0] >>a_playlist = app('Itunes').playlists['Whatever'] >>a_track.duplicate(to=a_playlist) >> > >Did you try that with your iTunes? > >Both of the methods above give me the same error message: Oops, there's an unrelated error in the above scripts - elements are one-indexed, not zero-indexed. (iTunes returns the wrong error code, btw; should be -1728, not -1708.) Change the first line to: a_track = app('Itunes').playlists['Library'].tracks[1] and it works. HTH has -- http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Adding a track to an iTunes playlist (appscript)
by has Oct. 20, 2005

Oct. 20, 2005

Alastair Rankine wrote: >On 20/10/2005, at 6:26 PM, David wrote: > > > app('Itunes').sources['Library'].playlists['Library'].duplicate > > ( a_track, to=a_playlist ) > > > > and many variations of it. But all I get is an error saying "Too > > many direct arguments". > > > > Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong? > >Yep, duplicate is a method of the application itself, not the >playlist. Indeed. Like AppleScript, appscript uses some special tricks to allow you to specify the command's direct argument in more than one way, either as 'application.command(directRef)' (the literal form) or as 'directRef.command()' (convenience form; converted to literal form under the hood). What the OP's actually writing is 'directRef.command(anotherDirectRef)', hence the [somewhat cryptic] error. The Application Commands chapter in the appscript manual has a section on special case behaviours. I'll amend it in the next release to better explain this particular error. >You need something like: > >a_track = app('Itunes').playlists['Library'].tracks[0] >a_playlist = app('Itunes').playlists['Whatever'] >app('Itunes').duplicate(a_track, to=a_playlist) Yup. Or: a_track = app('Itunes').playlists['Library'].tracks[0] a_playlist = app('Itunes').playlists['Whatever'] a_track.duplicate(to=a_playlist) HTH has -- http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/

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Adding a track to an iTunes playlist (appscript)
by David Oct. 20, 2005

Oct. 20, 2005

I'm trying to translate the following applescript into python: tell application "iTunes" tell source "Library" tell playlist "Library" ** a bunch of code for selecting a_track and a_playlist duplicate a_track to a_playlist end tell end tell end tell What I've tried is: app('Itunes').sources['Library'].playlists['Library'].duplicate ( a_track, to=a_playlist ) and many variations of it. But all I get is an error saying "Too many direct arguments". Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance, /David

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