Using Python instead of Bash

alister alister.nospam.ware at ntlworld.com
Mon Jun 1 05:07:16 EDT 2015


On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:06:33 +0300, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:

> Larry Hudson writes:
> 
>> On 05/31/2015 05:42 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>> I help someone that has problems reading. For this I take photo's of
>>> text, use convert from ImageMagick to make a good contrast (original
>>> paper is grey) and use lpr to print it a little bigger.
>>>
>> I''m wondering why you bother to take a photo, which then has to be
>> adjusted for quality.  A screen-capture program is much easier and
>> immediately gives you a perfect(?) starting image.
> 
> "paper"

Have you looked at using OCR software combined with a scanner?
I have used tesseract in the past with very god results.


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