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Episode: 3315
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Title: HPR3315: tesseract optical character recognition
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3315/hpr3315.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 20:38:04
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,315 for Friday, the 16th of April 2021.
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Tid's show is entitled Tesseract optical character recognition.
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It is hosted by Ken Felon and is about two minutes long and carries a clean flag.
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The summary is how to use this amazing doodle.
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Felon and you're listening to another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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Today I want to talk to you about a tool that I keep forgetting about and it is an optical
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character recognition tool that takes in an image file and then will convert that to text.
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The brilliant thing about it is it's got loads of language support so if you're scanning
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English documents it works out in the box with English.
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Otherwise you can install different language packs.
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For example, I've been running Tesseract-L-E-N-G.
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The name of the image file, JPEG and the prefix for the extension and then that's it.
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It'll just happily run and look at the optical characters, the funnels and try and
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determine some text from that.
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As you know, I've done a series here on scanning textbooks and stuff.
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At the moment I'm doing of course myself so I scanned in the book and in order to help me learn
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I have used this to convert the images into text blocks of text which I then get optical character
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then text-to-speech tools like eSpeak, not like eSpeak, eSpeak to read back to me and that way I hear
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what I'm learning and I see what I'm reading so that's very good too.
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It also allows you to change languages as I said and it also figures out very complicated
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column formats so that if you have, for example, a page with three different columns in it,
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it'll it's intelligent enough to know that column 1 is here and then the text was underneath that
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and from column 2 and the text from column 3 goes underneath that.
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So very very cool little tool and hopefully if you have needed it's quite cool
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for converting stuff to text for editing.
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Okay, that's what it's talk to you later and tune in tomorrow for another exciting
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episode of Hercopublic Radio.
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or record a follow-up episode yourself.
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