Reproduction of Dennis Couzin's 1983 work on optical printing. Derived from a scan in a PDF.
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README.md

NOTES ON OPTICAL PRINTER TECHNIQUE

Reproduction on the guide written by Dennis Couzin.

PDF Dependencies

  • pandoc
bash compile.sh 

Text extraction dependencies

  • Python3.7
  • OpenCV 2
  • Tesseract
  • PIL
cd extract
python3 pdf.py > ../ocr/pdf_output.txt
python3 ocr.py > ../ocr/tesseract_output.txt