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===Pruning Station with Irmak - The magic of scanner, OCR and dotmatrix printer (SI19)=== | ===Pruning Station with Irmak - The magic of scanner, OCR and dotmatrix printer (SI19)=== | ||
[[File:Station.jpg|thumb|Pruning Station in progress]] | |||
See: [[How_do_We_Library_That%3F%3F%3F#Pruning_Station_with_Irmak-_The_magic_of_scanner,_OCR_and_dotmatrix_printer]] | |||
Python script to scan a page from a book, apply OCR (optical character recognition) and print it on the dot matrix printer. | Python script to scan a page from a book, apply OCR (optical character recognition) and print it on the dot matrix printer. | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:34, 6 November 2023
Examples
Pruning Station with Irmak - The magic of scanner, OCR and dotmatrix printer (SI19)
Python script to scan a page from a book, apply OCR (optical character recognition) and print it on the dot matrix printer.
import os
print("starting the pruning process")
scanning = "sudo scanimage --resolution 300 --mode color -o image.png"
os.system(scanning)
os.system("tesseract image.png text.txt -l eng")
fantasyname = open("text.txt.txt" , "r")
fantasyname = fantasyname.readlines()
for line in fantasyname:
line = line.split(" ")
for l in line:
if l!="" or l != ['\n', '\r\n']:
print(l)
os.system("echo '"+l+"' > /dev/usb/lp0")