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 excerpt from the Gelly media player. 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 able to replicate. 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 codebase and run it yourself on Github. The Digital Archivists meet every Thursday in the Air. meet every Thursday in the space and hack away at it. I got to adding the maximum number of TODOs you have 300 lines of code. break some copyright law convert images of pages into actual text.

Tesseract is some amazing software that deals with lots of astronomy images. 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 does support some SIMD operations there is simply not much in the browser. Pretty dorky actually. Goodnight.