The latest version of Augraphy is out and available for download from PyPI! This release is all about quality improvements, bug fixes, and performance to make the augmentations you love even more realistic and reliable. I never like when app updates come with changelogs like “fixed all the bugs we…

I mentioned in the other post that Orbitron can be used for making near-me APIs, but I didn’t talk about how it actually works. Let’s do that here. Overview Orbitron has a few components that work together to form the product. When you want to know the nearest hundred pharmacies to…

To demo Orbitron, I built a simple Svelte web UI which fetches data about vaccination locations nearby a given ZIP code. It’s very much “MVP” quality, with an emphasis on “minimally” — I’m an awful designer. The accordion list for displaying results doesn’t seem to work as intended either. In…

Problems To stay competitive in today’s market, businesses are increasingly relying on data-driven approaches, and many are hitting the same roadblock: before the ubiquity of cheap storage and fast networking, all of their data was printed, and critical historical information is locked in paper format. Traditional transcription is expensive and time-consuming…

Our team has been hard at work the past few months, and we’re excited to announce the version 5 release of Augraphy, a library for generating document image training data for machine learning projects. To stay competitive in today’s market, businesses are increasingly relying on data-driven approaches, and many are…

In the last post, I explained a little about the Augraphy document image degradation project, and what we look for in contributions. This time, I’ll dive deeper into the Augraphy core (well, augraphy.base), to explain how the library works in general, what you can expect when using or developing for…

Augraphy is an easy project to contribute to, and my goal as maintainer is to keep it that way. I’m writing this guide partly as an introduction and invitation to the project itself and as a form of public documentation of the process. This post is equal parts how-to for…