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Great work, the integration (as shown in the demo) and UX are really well done. A couple of questions:

1) Why use Python for OpenCV when Ruby has a decent wrapper that can do Hough (https://github.com/ruby-opencv/ruby-opencv)? Or was the Ruby version just too buggy still?

2) Is there a command-line version planned? I guess it'd be most relevant once auto-detection is figured out.

1) We’re not actually using Python for OpenCV, just ruby-opencv and possibly some bindings in Java/JRuby. (I think Python’s in the build instructions due to a numpy dependency in OpenCV. Though that might be specific to using Homebrew on OS X. Definitely looking into it soon.)

2) No plans at the moment, though that's an awesome idea.

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