Go Eye released AR feature!

[GoEye2012]

New version works really great now when using pattern recognition!
Thanks guys, you made my life easier.

In the next few days I will give this app a hard time, and will use it as my only go software for everything I do: creating tsumego, scanning tsumego/fullboard games, viewing and editing games, editing raw sgf, printing pdf from a game etc. An ultimate test

Previously I was a sceptic and a harsh critic on this app but since the last few updates and especially this new 1.3 I believe it is really great tool for go players, and one of the best go apps on the market. Sure it's still not perfect, nothing is, but it's close. Most important - I know that my money were spent well.

Thanks GoEye!

Thank you, lobotommy! So happy to see that you like it.
Please let us know when you find any problem or have any suggestion in your ultimate test

[GoEye2012]

If I was to buy goeye, it would be to keep up with current pro games.

Can someone tell me how easy it is to download games from go4go? Does it automatically download new games? Or do you need to manually click on each? Can you easily download all go4go games, or is that not feasible?

Outside of go4go, does goeye contain a nice library of games? Or point you to where you can find them? If not, does anybody here know of a go archive that it can easily download?

Does it have a pattern matching capability that lets you find all pro games that meet certain criteria?

What if you download the same SCF twice? Is it smart enough to not keep two copies?

Sorry for the questions. I don't think there is a free trial version to test.

Thanks.

Thank you for your interests in Go Eye, wineandgolover.

First of all, Go Eye doesn't contain any game archive, which may look surprised at first sight to many. What?

But it is the most convenient tool to organize all online resources. The games can be imported from web link by simply touch a link of zip/rar archive or sgf file in side the full-fledged in-app browser. They can also be imported from mail attachments, dropbox, etc. With the cutting-edge image recognition techniques in Go Eye, you can import SGF problems from images.

In summary, Go Eye works like Google, which doesn't provide content itself, but it helps you to organize all games in the web.

For online game archive, surely go4go.net is a great place. There are also rich online SGF archives everywhere. We will try to compile a list later. Currently you can find some in the game resource page in http://e-intuit.hk/goeye site.

The games, once downloaded, become your local archive. Of course, you can edit/view/export them. You can search them by player, game title, with the convenient and fast go game search engine.

Returning to your question regarding to go4go. Dr. Li, the go4go.net owner, is so kind to offer game contents for Go Eye and the Go fans. In Go Eye's in-app browser, you can view and download the latest pro games. (See http://go4go.net/go/goeye to have a detailed rundown). It is not downloaded automatic. You have to touch the go4go.net icon in the home page of the in-app browser, a nicely arranged game list containing the latest pro games will be shown. Touch the game you like to download.

Go Eye will avoid downloading a same game from a same URL link. It will let you able to refresh it from the link again by the simple pull-to-refresh gesture(like twitter). This is useful to refresh a live-broadcast games. But if you download a same game from two different sites, Go Eye doesn't check duplicate content. It will have two game entries. And Go Eye internal supports same games to be duplicated. So that you can preserve an old game, while editing on a copy.

For pattern search, we will consider to support in the future, which will be a really amazing feature. Should have you any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. I assure you that Go Eye is by far the most actively upgraded Go app. Thank you.

[GoEye2012]

Is there any chance for GoEye for Android?

Sorry, no plan for Android yet. Once Go Eye is becoming more popular in market (so with enough revenue to support the development , we will consider that. Thanks.

[GoEye2012]

Wow it is indeed a big improvement! I actually tried all 176 Go problems at yeefan.sg a while ago. Before this version, 69 problems failed to work at all, and 3 incorrectly recognised. Now all but 4 problems can be recognised correctly. This feature used to be fun to play with. Now it is definitely can be used for serious work.

Yes, (176-4)/176 = 97.7%
I was so happy that the new algorithm worked so great during the development time, which really help improve my winning rate in igs higher, now targeting 7d

[exe]

Can GoEye read PDFs, and create SGF from problems in PDF?

For example, I have several problem books in PDF, let's say 2-6 problems per page. I would like to be able to create SGFs from those problems. Can I use GoEye for that?

Thanks

[GoEye2012]

Can GoEye read PDFs, and create SGF from problems in PDF?

For example, I have several problem books in PDF, let's say 2-6 problems per page. I would like to be able to create SGFs from those problems. Can I use GoEye for that?

Thanks

Go Eye cannot directly read PDFs (It generates PDF). One workaround is to capture the PDF into images and let Go Eye do the recognition.

Here is some ref for converting PDF to images automatically: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-ways-to- ... jpg-image/

But maybe Go Eye will have this in the future

[macelee]

Can GoEye read PDFs, and create SGF from problems in PDF?

For example, I have several problem books in PDF, let's say 2-6 problems per page. I would like to be able to create SGFs from those problems. Can I use GoEye for that?

Thanks

Hi exe, Go Eye cannot open PDF files directly, however, diagrams on the PDF can be treated as images, which in turn can be recognised by Go Eye. Here is how you do this:

• Open the PDF using your favorite PDF reader, zoom to the Go diagram as appropriate. Take a screen capture (by pressing your IPhone/IPad's home button and power button at the same time)
• Open Go Eye, select Image Recognition, select "Camera Roll" to find the screen capture you've just taken
• Because your screen capture might contain text, you need to select an area containing the Go diagram only so that Go Eye does not get confused. You can do this by tap your screen and drag your finger, a green rectangle will appear to help you select the area (see my attached image below)
  

  

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• Once selected, tap the "Eye" icon below, Go Eye will start recognition. Hopefully if the quality of the PDF is good, the diagram can be converted to SGF. Click the 'check' icon below to accept the result an open it in Go Eye (see image below)
  

  

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[exe]

thanks

it all sounds great, but that's not what i am looking for.

taking a screenshot of every page from PDF, then opening,... correcting SGFs, etc - it's probably faster to create SGFs using Drago.

another question, as I dont think it's mentioned.
can goEye create SGF from solution? as solution have stones from the problem, and added numbered stones, it makes sense to use solution to create SGF.

thanks

[GoEye2012]

thanks

it all sounds great, but that's not what i am looking for.

taking a screenshot of every page from PDF, then opening,... correcting SGFs, etc - it's probably faster to create SGFs using Drago.

another question, as I dont think it's mentioned.
can goEye create SGF from solution? as solution have stones from the problem, and added numbered stones, it makes sense to use solution to create SGF.

thanks

Hi, exe, Go Eye is able to create/edit sophisticated SGF games with variants, and you can add pre-set stones too. Please let me know if the answer misunderstands what you mean by "use solution".

[exe]

Thanks, but looks like we didnt understand each other:)

Can I create SGF using GoEye from
http://senseis.xmp.net/?MaedaTsumego%2FAnswer157lem


This is solution, so the original problem 157
(see here http://senseis.xmp.net/?MaedaTsumego)
is there original problem plus numbered stones, eg solution.

So instead of creating problem SGFs with GoEye (without solution) then creating the answer manually using some Go editor, can I create SGFs by 'scanning' solutions? And getting it all at once.

Hope I explained it better this time,

Thanks

[GoEye2012]

Thanks, but looks like we didnt understand each other:)

Can I create SGF using GoEye from
http://senseis.xmp.net/?MaedaTsumego%2FAnswer157lem


This is solution, so the original problem 157
(see here http://senseis.xmp.net/?MaedaTsumego)
is there original problem plus numbered stones, eg solution.

So instead of creating problem SGFs with GoEye (without solution) then creating the answer manually using some Go editor, can I create SGFs by 'scanning' solutions? And getting it all at once.

Hope I explained it better this time,

Thanks

Not quite clear. Why "creating the answer manually using some Go editor"? Why not just do that in Go Eye? Go Eye is a full-fledge SGF editor. What do you mean by "scanning"? Using image recognition to recognize the number sequence?

[exe]

I don't have GoEye, and didnt use it, so my terminology and explanation of the process is a little bit off. Forgot 'scanning', wrong word.

> Why "creating the answer manually using some Go editor"?
> Why not just do that in Go Eye? Go Eye is a full-fledge SGF editor
I don't want to use any Go editor, including GoEye. I want GoEye to do that for me. That was kind of question, "do I need to use Go editor to add solution/number sequence?"

> What do you mean by "scanning"?
>Using image recognition to recognize the number sequence?
Yes, will GoEye recognize and create number sequence (eg the answer/solution) and create SGF?

[GoEye2012]

I don't have GoEye, and didnt use it, so my terminology and explanation of the process is a little bit off. Forgot 'scanning', wrong word.

> Why "creating the answer manually using some Go editor"?
> Why not just do that in Go Eye? Go Eye is a full-fledge SGF editor
I don't want to use any Go editor, including GoEye. I want GoEye to do that for me. That was kind of question, "do I need to use Go editor to add solution/number sequence?"

> What do you mean by "scanning"?
>Using image recognition to recognize the number sequence?
Yes, will GoEye recognize and create number sequence (eg the answer/solution) and create SGF?

I see. You want to have an app that is able to recognize the sequence number in a life&death problem image, right? Go Eye doesn't recognize the numbers in an image now. But we may add it in the future. See the long comments about this that I replied in http://go4go.net/go/goeye.

[lobotommy]

1) I don't know how it was previously but the app does not remember a position in a current game. So if I go from a game to the main menu and then come back I'm looking at a blank board instead of position I was at.

2) Sometimes I would like to compare quickly two games I have in my library, or just go to the next problem without going out to main menu. Next game/previous game buttons would be a good thing. It would be very useful especially with problems collections.

3) one small thing - if a game is locked and "No editing if locked" is set On, the small lock is visible in a game view and if I touch it it will unlock a game for editing - it's good, but what if I want to lock it again without having to go to the main menu? It would be nice to have this lock icon permanent - opened/locked alternately, don't you think?

I love plain B/W view without any colour textures - thanks for this.

Any plans for Dropbox/Google/iCloud synchronization between devices?

[macelee]

Any plans for Dropbox/Google/iCloud synchronization between devices?

Not sure about other cloud services, but Dropbox has an API for doing this:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog ... developers

Hopefully should be easy enough to do.