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I am going to try and replicate the process.</p> - -<h2 id="the-plan">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> - -<h2 id="challenges">Challenges</h2> - -<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> - -<p>Now, I could either write neater, or use an external API like Microsoft Azure</p> - -<h2 id="solution">Solution</h2> - -<h3 id="ocr">OCR</h3> - -<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 id="paragraph-breaks">Paragraph Breaks</h3> - -<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>&#182;</code> which is the pilcrow character. </p> - -<h2 id="where-is-the-code">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> - -<p><em>* In Part 2, I will discuss some more features *</em> </p> - - </div> - <blockquote>If you have scrolled this far, consider subscribing to my mailing list <a href="https://listmonk.navan.dev/subscription/form">here.</a> You can subscribe to either a specific type of post you are interested in, or subscribe to everything with the "Everything" list.</blockquote> - <script data-isso="https://comments.navan.dev/" - src="https://comments.navan.dev/js/embed.min.js"></script> - <div id="isso-thread"> - <noscript>Javascript needs to be activated to view comments.</noscript> - </div> - - </div> - <script src="assets/manup.min.js"></script> - <script src="/pwabuilder-sw-register.js"></script> -</body> -</html>
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