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Re:A web video company that is most likely a hoax on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:21PM (#3222416)
If it is standard then why the author was surprised by the compression ratio?

Any webservice to search store hours

Is there any webservice for searching w.r.t. store hours? For example, if I need ice-cream at midnight, only those stores around me should be listed which are open at this time! How difficult will be to build it?

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How to parse postal addresses from documents

I have seen that google and yahoo do a neat job on parsing postal address information from free form text. What technique/api do they use? What can I use to parse all postal addresses from a pdf, word, text, html document.

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