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hpr3998 :: Using open source OCR to digitize my mom's book

How I used open source tools such as gphoto2 and the OCR software tesseract to digitize pages

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Hosted by Deltaray on Wednesday, 2023-11-29 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
ocr, opensource, grep, scripts, programming. 2.
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Duration: 00:30:47

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To improve the speed of my workflow, I wrote a bash script that uses the open source programs gphoto2, tesseract, grep and ImageMagick to digitize my mom's 338 page book. Here is the link to the script: https://github.com/deltaray/ocr-script

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Comment #1 posted on 2023-11-29 20:39:52 by brian-in-ohio

good show

Enjoyed every minute of this show. Its someting I've wanted to try, now I think I will. Nice little rant at the end, hit the nail on the head. Keep the shows coming

Comment #2 posted on 2023-12-03 13:19:03 by Deltaray

Thanks

Thanks, I appreciate that feedback and good luck with your endeavors.

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