Re: Should we really care??
Hi Bipo, welcome to the 21th century
I must confess, I already coded a scraper for testing some of my algorithms over stars playmoney site a while ago, i never used craps or such scraper who is poorly coded and for cheaters not researchers.
Scraping is very easy to do, i created a 100% Java solution, the thing is simple, create fast and solid OCR algorithms (i used the ones on the SAKAI paper) and then just create DB with all the font (card + dealer windows character + stack and name font). put some offset to check position or "range" and you're done.
for cards the thing is pretty simple and do not demand too much CPU power b/c you only need to do once.
The most effective way to do screen scraping is to use the Dealer WIndows with 100% of information, where you can find 95% of the game state
here a comment for site owner , The first thing you can do is to get RID of the Dealer windows!!!
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