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authornavanchauhan <navanchauhan@gmail.com>2022-11-07 23:36:11 -0700
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+ <h1>A new method to blog</h1>
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+<p><a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="https://paperwebsite.com">Paper Website</a> is a service that lets you build a website with just pen and paper. I am going to try and replicate the process.</p>
+
+<h2>The Plan</h2>
+
+<p>The continuity feature on macOS + iOS lets you scan PDFs directly from your iPhone. I want to be able to scan these pages and automatically run an Automator script that takes the PDF and OCRs the text. Then I can further clean the text and convert from markdown.</p>
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+<h2>Challenges</h2>
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+<p>I quickly realised that the OCR software I planned on using could not detect my shitty handwriting accurately. I tried using ABBY Finereader, Prizmo and OCRMyPDF. (Abby Finereader and Prizmo support being automated by Automator).</p>
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+<p>Now, I could either write neater, or use an external API like Microsoft Azure</p>
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+<h2>Solution</h2>
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+<h3>OCR</h3>
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+<p>In the PDFs, all the scans are saved as images on a page. I extract the image and then send it to Azure's API. </p>
+
+<h3>Paragraph Breaks</h3>
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+<p>The recognised text had multiple lines breaking in the middle of the sentence, Therefore, I use what is called a <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow">pilcrow</a> to specify paragraph breaks. But, rather than trying to draw the normal pilcrow, I just use the HTML entity <code>&amp;#182;</code> which is the pilcrow character. </p>
+
+<h2>Where is the code?</h2>
+
+<p>I created a <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="https://gist.github.com/navanchauhan/5fc602b1e023b60a66bc63bd4eecd4f8">GitHub Gist</a> for a sample Python script to take the PDF and print the text </p>
+
+<p>A more complete version with Auomator scripts and an entire publishing pipeline will be available as a GitHub and Gitea repo soon.</p>
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+<p><em>* In Part 2, I will discuss some more features *</em> </p>
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