This is another one of those posts that I wrote for only one purpose: Making something a little easier on someone else who may have to do the same thing. First, I will credit my ultimate source. Thanks Daniel for your post. I was able to read it and find the piece I needed in the middle. Here is the…
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How to Convert Image to editable text with Tesseract OCR on Ubuntu
First, watch this video for the full meal deal. However, for a quick and dirty summary of how to quickly convert a pretty bad image / photo (or pretty good one) into a .txt file, here we go: 1. Install Tesseract sudo apt install tesseract-ocr 2. Convert the image (ie. .jpg, pdf, etc) into a .tiff file with Imagemagik to…