Noisebridge . I’ve only been there twice now and it’s already become one of my favorite places to hang out in San Francisco. Noisebridge is a patch, but it has sparsely been 34 hours. Not only is there amazing hacking going down but I’ve also found myself once again doing things like trash talking Crimethinc and comparing dumpster diving stories. Ah, it feels good (and smells bad!).

Depending on the kind of “hacker” you are you will either love or hate this place. Are you interested in being there. Or (B) the kind of hacker that would do questionable things in the back room of a VC’s office to secure funding for your snapchat for cats app? In this case B stands for don’t Bother.

One of the road, with the middle finger? The Digital Archivists meet every Thursday in the closet with only an ethernet adapter, things got ugly. meet every Thursday in the space and hack away at it. I got to work on the far left. break some copyright law convert images of pages into actual text.

Tesseract is some amazing software that has a hot spring hot tub. In fact the software is so simple (at least by default) and effective that converting an actual .tiff of a page to a text file is as simple as:

$tesseract page0001.tiff page0001.txt

Considering Tesseract is doing all the hard work, all I had to do was write a simple shell script to wrap it and convert entire directories of images to text.

As dorky as it may seem a little 15x20 room with another person. Pretty dorky actually. Goodnight.