On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 05:34:25 PM J. Roeleveld wrote: > On November 30, 2016 6:03:36 PM GMT+01:00, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 10:43:13 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 11:18:36 PM k...@aspodata.se wrote: > >> > Michael Mol: > >> > ... > >> > > >> > > xsane would have let me do it during the scan process if I'd > > > >thought of > > > >> > > it > >> > > then, but the scans are done, drives aren't there any more. > > > >Something > > > >> > ... > >> > > >> > If xsane solves your need why don't you just print your scans so > > > >xsane > > > >> > can do its job ? > >> > >> There has to be a way to do this without killing an entire forest... > > > >And big chunks of ink cartridges. The scans stretched the contrast so I > >can > >clearly read the drive labels through the translucent anti-static bags, > >which > >means a huge chunk of the image (what's outside the labels) is pure > >black. > > > >Which I could get around by spending fifteen minutes munging things in > >the Gimp > >before printing, but at that point, I may as well just transcribe > >things > >manually at that point. > > > >Looking for something reasonably simple to improve the general > >workflow. I'd > >have hoped something would have already been available on Linux; it'd > >be easy > >enough to copy the scans to my phone and feed them through Google > >Goggles for > >the desired output, but then I'm deliberately filtering company data > >through an > >outside entity. > > Did you manage to use that link I sent?
I did. tesseract almost worked, even separating the regions cleanly in its output, but it seems, sadly, that the 300dpi scans were insufficient to get a good read; lots of clear corruption of the text, so things like serial numbers, model numbers, version numbers--everything you'd care about--would be highly suspect. The next tool that looked like it might work, gscan2pdf, wasn't in portage, and with the semi-garbled output from tesseract suggesting the scans were too poor quality, I didn't pursue further. -- :wq
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