When I ordered the new Raspberry Pi 3, I took up my Raspberry Pi 2 that had been collecting dust waiting for it to arrive.\u00a0 I had an idea of some things I wanted to prototype, one of which was a sort of online library, where books could be uploaded in the form jpg files for pages, then OCR’ed by the website and presented to visitors as a readable book.\u00a0 After about a week of tinkering in my spare time, Stage 1 was complete.<\/p>\n
Using open source like tesseract for the OCRing and Internet Archive BookReader for the reading, the site falls into place pretty quickly, all functioning on a $35 Raspberry Pi.\u00a0 Now that I have the new Pi 3, I’ve actually\u00a0continued to use the Pi 2 for this project,\u00a0to help keep things to a lower common denominator.<\/p>\n
Over time, I hope to make more posts regarding specific features or approaches, like improving Tesseract accuracy, or creating installer scripts and other things.\u00a0\u00a0We’ll see how things go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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