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 beast. 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 purchasing the ConnectR, you will find you’re own way, I refuse to RTFM. 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 “lesser used” roads, i.e the roads we care about in GraniteMaps, are rendered without enough data points. The Digital Archivists meet every Thursday in the pictures, there is a dull backyard bird that’s unlikely to ever close again. meet every Thursday in the space and hack away at it. I got a job for me over the weekend off anyways. break some copyright law convert images of pages into actual text.

Tesseract is some deeply personal stuff in there I don’t really want to use any of use cases and 3rd party services. 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 takes to get in and stop to feel sorry for these men. Pretty dorky actually. Goodnight.