london.pm Digest, Vol 60, Issue 19

[Ashley Hindmarsh]

On 28 October 2010 16:34, Ashley Hindmarsh
<ash+perl at best-scarper.co.uk<ash%2Bperl at best-scarper.co.uk>
> wrote:

>
>> Message: 11
>> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:04:02 +0100
>> From: Christopher Jones <c.jones at ucl.ac.uk>
>> Subject: Re: PerlMagick
>> To: "London.pm Perl M\[ou\]ngers" <london.pm at london.pm.org>
>> Message-ID: <7989BF52-6B63-4F0B-B5F3-5530AA5E4F77 at ucl.ac.uk>
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>> On 28 Oct 2010, at 13:42, David Cantrell wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:10:50PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote:
>> >> On 28 Oct 2010, at 12:03, Christopher Jones wrote:
>> >>> Has anyone on London.pm had success installing PerlMagick on a Mac?
>> >> Yeah - it's painful. I usually resort to installing ImageMagick from
>> source.
>> >
>> > ... and then interacting with it through the imagemagick programs'
>> > command lines, not through PerlMagick.
>>
>> I have several thousand scan images that contain a barcode, and I'd like
>> to extract the barcode from each one - and after a bit of digging around I
>> figured PerlMagick might be the solution.
>>
>> I'm sure there's more than one way of skinning this cat, but if I *could*
>> install PerlMagick, it would be helpful!
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
> I got sick of maintaining Imagemagick (even from source) in a previous
> incarnation so just ported our modest image processing requirements to
> Image::Imlib2.
>
>
>   Ash
>
>
Sorry I'm talking cack - it was Imager.

http://search.cpan.org/~tonyc/Imager-0.78/Imager.pm

  Ash