Automating Background Removal with Firefly Services / / No Comments As a quick FYI, if you would rather skip reading my text and jump to a video, I’ve got one at the end of this post. Be my guest to scroll down and watch that instead. One of the most interesting aspects of Adobe Firefly Services is what it enables in the automation space. I think it’s fair to say that these automations will still be followed up by a human checking, tweaking, and adjusting results, but if the APIs can save a significant amount of time, that’s got to be a great benefit. Let me demonstrate one simple example of this – removing background images at scale. The Remove Background API The Remove Background API is part of the Photoshop API family and handles the... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Automating, Background, Firefly, removal, Services
Automating Blog Post Headers with Firefly Services / / No Comments Yesterday I introduced you to Adobe’s new offering, Firefly Services, and demonstrated a simple example of how to generate images from prompt using the REST APIs. Today I thought I’d share one of the little demos I’ve made with the API, and one specifically built to help out with my blog – generating headers. My usual process for headers is to go to the Firefly website, enter a prompt, let it load, and then promptly change it to landscape and re-generate my prompt again. I always feel bad that the initial, square, images are essentially trashed. It occurred to me I could build a Node.js utility to generate the images at the exact right size and even quickly display them.... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Automating, blog, Firefly, Headers, Post, Services
Thoughts on Streaming Services: 2024 Edition / / No Comments Streaming services have revolutionized content delivery, sending linear media companies into a panic as they watch traditional cable services decay. “Cutting the cord” is a common practice these days, but the streaming landscape isn’t perfect. We’re a decade into streaming so I wanted to share my thoughts on the state of new media: first impressions, second thoughts, and the third degree! Netflix is king thanks to having first mover advantage, and making smart financial moves over the past six months, but Netflix’s content is unremarkable. Their recent wins are USA’s Suits and content licensed from Max…they need to do better… The biggest loser... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2024, Edition, Services, Streaming, thoughts
Using AI and PDF Services to Automate Document Summaries / / No Comments I first discovered Diffbot way back in 2021 when I built a demo of their APIs for the Adobe Developer blog ("Natural Language Processing, Adobe PDF Extract, and Deep PDF Intelligence"). At that time, I was impressed with how easy Diffbot’s API was and also how quickly it responded. I had not looked at their API in a while, but a few days ago they announced new support for summarizing text. I thought this would be a great thing to combine with the Adobe PDF Extract API. Here’s what I found. First off, if you want to try this yourself, you’ll need: Adobe PDF Services credentials. These are free and you get 500 transactions per month for free. For folks who may not know,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Automate, Document, Services, Summaries, using
ColdFusion Component for Adobe Acrobat Services / / No Comments Last month, I wrote up a post demonstrating how to use Adobe Acrobat Services with ColdFusion. This week I took some of the code I had written for that post and turned it into a proper GitHub project. You can find the latest code here: https://github.com/cfjedimaster/coldfusion-cfc-acrobat-services To use this, you’ll need credentials, which you can get and use for free for up to 500 transactions. (The docs go into detail about how that works.) Currently I only have a subset of our APIs supported, but I plan to hit most of the rest in the next day or so. To give you an example of how it works, here’s a sample that uses our Extract API. First, you instantiate the component with your... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Acrobat, Adobe, ColdFusion, Component, Services
Integrating Acrobat Services with ColdFusion / / No Comments Last week I shared a look at how to integrate the Adobe Photoshop API with ColdFusion, and that got me itching to see how difficult it would be to do the same with our Acrobat Services. While ColdFusion has native PDF features built-in, I think there are aspects of the platform that may be of use to CF developers. The Acrobat Services Platform # Let’s start by briefly describing what Acrobat Services are. At a high level, they’re all about document management via APIs. Broadly the services are categorized like so: PDF Services – this is the "catch-all" bucket of services that do simple things like converting to and from PDFs, splitting, merging, and so forth. This... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Acrobat, ColdFusion, Integrating, Services
Toronto police app maps out mental health services for people in crisis – CBC.ca / / No Comments CBC.ca Toronto police app maps out mental health services for people in crisisCBC.caOfficers working in the mobile crisis intervention unit, which responds to mental health calls with a nurse or social worker, have been using the app for about four months. So far, the app is seeing about 50 hits a day, Williams said. Toronto police … map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: CBC.ca, crisis, health, maps, mental, people, Police, Services, Toronto
What’s The Most Popular Dating App In Your State? This Map Shows The Most Searched Online Dating Services In … – Bustle / / No Comments Bustle What's The Most Popular Dating App In Your State? This Map Shows The Most Searched Online Dating Services In …BustleWhen it comes to the most popular dating app out there, you may be surprised to see what's happening in your area. Because while there are some definite heavy hitters in the dating app world, there's actually a huge amount of variation in what's …and more » map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Bustle, Dating, most, online, Popular, Searched, Services, Shows, State, this, What's