My friend Andrew and I implemented Stoke Width Transform (SWT) on a mobile phone during a class project at Cornell. Maybe you can get hint from the report. The report: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs4670/2010fa/projects/final/results/group_of_arp86_sk2357/Writeup.pdf Our code: https://sites.google.com/site/roboticssaurav/strokewidthnokia Updated code: https://github.com/aperrau/DetectText
Well, it does take a little post-processing, but it’s not that bad: import os import zipfile import time outDirectory = ‘C:\\TEMP\\’ inFile=”test.zip” fh = open(os.path.join(outDirectory,inFile),’rb’) z = zipfile.ZipFile(fh) for f in z.infolist(): name, date_time = f.filename, f.date_time name = os.path.join(outDirectory, name) with open(name, ‘wb’) as outFile: outFile.write(z.open(f).read()) date_time = time.mktime(date_time + (0, 0, -1)) os.utime(name, … Read more
I was given a 400 page pdf file with a table of data that I had to import – luckily no images. Ghostscript worked for me: gswin64c -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o output.txt input.pdf The output file was split into pages with headers, etc., but it was then easy to write an app to strip out blank lines, … Read more