Re: Using GIFT for symbol recognition

Hello Everyone,

I have downloaded the GIFT files from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gift. I 
tried to find the  README.Debian as suggested by Ernesto but did not 
find the file.

What I'm missing? What are the requirements to install GIFT (any C++ 
software, which platform - windows XP)?

Thanks in advance for your help

Philip

Ernesto Ferrari wrote:

>Wolfgang Müller wrote:
>  
>
>>>I'm afraid that there is no user manual as such. There are instructions
>>>on adding a collection in the GIFT tarball. You can get the GIFT, and
>>>this information, from http://www.gnu.org/software/gift/gift.html
>>>      
>>>
>>AFAIR there is a stub for a manual which is much older than the current 
>>version of the GIFT. Configuring and hacking the GIFT.
>>
>>Can one of the recent newbies tell us what information sources were the most 
>>helpful? 
>>
>>Ernesto, do you have a timeslice for telling us?
>>    
>>
>
>Well, I found a very useful resource for getting started quickly with
>the GIFT in the Debian Package file "README.Debian", which I report here
>along with some notes of mine:
>
><readme.debian>
>So in short you could do the following:
>
> * mkdir gift-data
>
> * cd gift-data
>
> * cp /usr/share/libmrml1/gift-config.mrml .
><ernesto>
>This path is where Debian install gift-config.mrml, if you compile from
>scratch it is under GIFTServer/gift-config/gift-config.mrml in the
>source directory </ernesto>
>
> * export GIFT_HOME=`pwd`
><ernesto>
>do you a favour and set the GIFT_HOME variable in your .bashrc </ernesto>
>
>
> * gift-add-collection.pl /path/to/your/huge/collection/of/images
><ernesto>
>if you want to test your installation with the Client.php script issue
>the following:
>
>gift-add-collection.pl
>--image-directory=/path/to/your/huge/collection/of/images
>--url-prefix=http://hostname/images
>--thumbnail-url-prefix=http://hostname/images_thumbnails
>--collection-name=a_name_for_your_collection
>
>Configure your webserver so that http://hostname/images points to
>/path/to/your/huge/collection/of/images on the filesystem: if you don't
>want to configure your webserver just make a link named "images" under
>the web server's DocumentRoot directory.
></ernesto>
>
>
> * gift & # and hope it runs
> * gunzip < /usr/share/doc/gnuift/examples/Client.php.gz > \
>     /path/to/a/webserver/accessible/directory/Client.php
><ernesto>
>The Client.php which comes in Debian doesn't work (at least for me), so
>here is the one which works (at least for me):
>http://www.computer-visions.org/dl/Client.php.gz
></ernesto>
>
> * access the url with a browser and enter the host where gift is
>   running
> * be happy
></readme.debian>
>
>Philip, all of the above presume an already compiled/installed GIFT, if
>this is not the case let us know and we'll guide you through this.
>
>Cheers,
>Ernesto
>
>
>  
>

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