Hacker Public Radio   /     HPR3998: Using open source OCR to digitize my mom's book

Description

To improve the speed of my workflow, I wrote a bash script that uses the open source programs 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

Summary

To improve the speed of my workflow, I wrote a bash script that uses the open source programs 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