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HPR3998: Using open source OCR to digitize my mom's book

Hosted by Deltaray on 2023-11-29 00:00:00
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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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