{"id":5,"date":"2016-03-16T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2018-01-04T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T23:32:10","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Library Pi.\u00a0 This site is intended to describe and deliver the &#8216;Library Pi&#8217; system.\u00a0 Designed around a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raspberry Pi<\/a>, the steps will really work on just about any flavor of Linux.\u00a0 Though this isn&#8217;t a Raspberry Pi, you can view a demo book here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/demo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/demo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Library Pi is a website and back end that allows you to upload a zip file of pages for a book, and then read and search that book online, using all open source software and some custom PHP code.<\/p>\n<p>We go from a Zip file containing this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ZipFileContains.png\" alt=\"ZipFileContains\" width=\"462\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To a searchable book we can view and zoom online, like this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Stage1Test4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92\" src=\"http:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Stage1Test4.png\" alt=\"Stage1Test4\" width=\"437\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We will be covering OCR&#8217;ing the text, which on a Raspberry Pi can take some time.\u00a0 We found that the newer Raspberry Pi3 was a great improvement for this.<\/p>\n<h3>Stages<\/h3>\n<p>There are several stages of development, from basic setup, to basic Library Pi installation (Stage 1), to OCRing text (Stage 2).<\/p>\n<p>If you can setup Apache, MySQL, PHP, and a website to allow uploading of files, you can skip the Pi Setup section.\u00a0 Similarly, you can just download the Stage1.Zip file from Stage 1 and put it into place without reading all the text.\u00a0 Just be prepared to go back and read it if something doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Library Pi.\u00a0 This site is intended to describe and deliver the &#8216;Library Pi&#8217; system.\u00a0 Designed around a Raspberry Pi, the steps will really work on just about any flavor of Linux.\u00a0 Though this isn&#8217;t a Raspberry Pi, you&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librarypi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}