Hi Nathan,

On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 19:06 -0800, NA wrote:

> I created a script, which takes an image file (currently TIF), OCRs it using 
> http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ Tesseract  and returns the
> recognized text.
> 
> The script takes the image as a parameter and passes it to Tesseract OCR on
> the filesystem, using the command line; Tesseract OCRs the file and then
> returns the resulting text. The script then creates a new text file in
> Plone, in the same folder as the image, with the recognized text. I call the
> external script from an internal script, which is called from an action.
> 
> I assume in order to upload this to plone.org it needs to be a product but I
> don't know how to turn it into a product. Honestly, I just wanted to get it
> to work so I could OCR documents using Plone and it does now. 
> 
> I was wondering if anyone wants to see the script and help turn it into a
> product so it is available to the Plone community?
> 
> Also, if I don't turn it into a product, is there another way I could post
> it so people could use it and perhaps contribute to it?


You could create a tutorial[1] on plone.org and upload the scripts as
attachments and/or post the code into the tutorial - that's a great way
to contribute!

Thanks,
Tim

[1] http://plone.org/documentation


> 
> Thanks,
> Nathan
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