That sounds alright. Should it be a tutorial or how-to? I started creating a
tutorial but I was not sure what "section" was appropriate. Any idea what
section I should put this in?

Thanks
Nathan


David Bain wrote:
> 
> +1 for the tutorial.
> I'm sure someone could then productize it from there :)
> 
> On Dec 27, 2007 10:47 PM, Tim Knapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>  Hi Nathan,
>>
>> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 19:06 -0800, NA wrote:
>>
>> I created a script, which takes an image file (currently TIF), OCRs it
>> using http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ Tesseract  and returns
>> therecognized text.
>> The script takes the image as a parameter and passes it to Tesseract OCR
>> onthe filesystem, using the command line; Tesseract OCRs the file and
>> thenreturns the resulting text. The script then creates a new text file
>> inPlone, in the same folder as the image, with the recognized text. I
>> call theexternal script from an internal script, which is called from an
>> action.
>> I assume in order to upload this to plone.org it needs to be a product
>> but Idon't know how to turn it into a product. Honestly, I just wanted to
>> get itto work so I could OCR documents using Plone and it does now.
>> I was wondering if anyone wants to see the script and help turn it into
>> aproduct so it is available to the Plone community?
>> Also, if I don't turn it into a product, is there another way I could
>> postit so people could use it and perhaps contribute to it?
>>
>>
>> You could create a tutorial[1] on plone.org and upload the scripts as
>> attachments and/or post the code into the tutorial - that's a great way
>> to
>> contribute!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>>
>> [1] http://plone.org/documentation
>>
>>  Thanks,Nathan----------------------http://www.abillionbillion.com
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