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John Maeda’s Blog

Welcome to John Maeda's Blog: maeda.pm. Sharing a passion for product and data, grounded in technology / business / design curiosities with a dash of leadership reflections.

  • 🆕 Resilience Books List
  • 🆕 The Useful MBA
  • 📘 How To Speak Machine
  • 📓 Resilience Tech Report
  • 🟦 Personal Site
  • ↓ On Leadership
    • Creative Leadership (2009-15)
    • Traditional vs Creative Leadership (2009)
    • Start-ups vs End-ups (2013)
    • My Four Rules (1999)
    • Managing Through Change (2009-2020)
  • 📬 Newsletter
  • youtube
  • Pinterest
  • @johnmaeda

Welcome to John Maeda's Blog: maeda.pm. Sharing a passion for product and data, grounded in technology / business / design curiosities with a dash of leadership reflections.

  • 🆕 Resilience Books List
  • 🆕 The Useful MBA
  • 📘 How To Speak Machine
  • 📓 Resilience Tech Report
  • 🟦 Personal Site
  • ↓ On Leadership
    • Creative Leadership (2009-15)
    • Traditional vs Creative Leadership (2009)
    • Start-ups vs End-ups (2013)
    • My Four Rules (1999)
    • Managing Through Change (2009-2020)
  • 📬 Newsletter
  • youtube
  • Pinterest
  • @johnmaeda

OCR

I was looking for a free way to do OCR and found Tesseract. It was super easy to use.

$ brew install tesseract
$ tesseract file.png out

This took a PNG I gave it and wrote the text out to out.txt

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    December 27, 2019
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