Thomas Hintz
VP, Product Development at Milner Technologies (formerly Comsquared Systems)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorThomas Hintz is a seasoned product and engineering leader with over three decades in technology and 11 years focused on software product development, currently serving as VP of Product Development at Milner Technologies where he guides paperless office, content server, workflow and cloud services for the eye care and IT markets. He blends executive product strategy with hands-on engineering, having earlier managed network systems and performed systems analysis at Northwest Airlines and Unisys. Thomas contributes to open-source tooling—most notably improving a .NET wrapper for Tesseract OCR by updating its resource management and adapting it to Tesseract 4.0—demonstrating attention to low-level reliability and image-processing details. Based in Saint Paul, he is known for turning niche domain requirements into robust, production-grade software while maintaining deep technical involvement in integrations and platform reliability.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
net10
ocr10
dotnet10
leptonica10
tess4j10
asp-net10
tesseractjs10
tesseract10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
image-processing9
api8
apim8
blazor6
xml6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
charlesw/tesseract
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
A .Net wrapper for tesseract-ocr
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 112 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on updating the .NET wrapper for Tesseract OCR. Their contributions included refactoring code for resource management and disposal, ensuring that unmanaged resources are properly cleared. They also incorporated changes from Tesseract 4.0 API updates, which involved modifying several core files. Furthermore, they enhanced the project by exposing image resolution fetching methods and propagating the resolution to Bitmap renditions, addressing a specific issue.
dotnetocrcsharptesseracttesseract-ocr
tdhintz/tesseract4win64
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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