User:Artemis gryllaki/PrototypingIII

Publishing an “image gallery”

Imagemagick’s suite of tools includes montage which is quite flexible and useful for making a quick overview page of image.

• mogrify
• identify
• convert
• Sizing down a bunch of images

Warning: MOGRIFY MODIES THE IMAGES – ERASING THE ORIGINAL – make a copy of the images before you do this!!!

mogrify -resize 1024x *.JPG
Fixing the orientation of images
mogrify -auto-orient *.JPG
Using Montage
montage -label "%f" *.JPG \

   -shadow 

   -geometry 1000x1000+100+100 

   -montage.caption.jpg

Using pdftk to put things together

OCR

simple tesseract:
tesseract nameofpicture.png outputbase

Scanning a book page

Output: character recognition with tesseract-ocr / styled with javascript