Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-08-02 Thread Martin McCormick
rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > I know this is off point (because you are not the original poster, who, > iirc, > is blind or partially blind), but, if the only reason to reconfigure the > BIOS > is to set the correct date and time, an alternate would be to boot with > the > wrong time, then use,

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-08-02 Thread Martin McCormick
Felix Miata writes: > Are these old Dells continuously connected to power whether booted or not? Yes. > I have a bunch of old Dells. When left unconnected to power, some wear > down the > 2032 coin cell CMOS batteries with unusual haste. Once this happens and > the > battery is replaced,

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-08-01 Thread Paul Sutton
On 01/08/2019 19:13, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, August 01, 2019 01:49:34 PM Felix Miata wrote: >> I have a bunch of old Dells. When left unconnected to power, some wear down >> the 2032 coin cell CMOS batteries with unusual haste. Once this happens >> and the battery is replaced,

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-08-01 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, August 01, 2019 01:49:34 PM Felix Miata wrote: > I have a bunch of old Dells. When left unconnected to power, some wear down > the 2032 coin cell CMOS batteries with unusual haste. Once this happens > and the battery is replaced, reconfiguring the BIOS is required, unless > 100% use

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-08-01 Thread Felix Miata
Martin McCormick composed on 2019-07-30 12:01 (UTC-0500): > I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running > debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention > to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other > brands will occasionally modify their boot

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-08-01 Thread Martin McCormick
David Christensen writes: > What about using a computer whose CMOS Setup utility is accessible via the > serial port? This article indicates the Dell 2450 is capable: > > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/rhl-biosserial.html > > > David > > Thanks for the

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-08-01 Thread Martin McCormick
john doe writes: > On 7/30/2019 7:01 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running > > debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention > > to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other > > brands will occasionally

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread deloptes
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I wasn't keeping track of statistics (I wasn't conducting an experiment, > I had a pamphlet that needed to be recreated and then edited), but the > results were very very close to 100%  I certainly spent a lot more time > on reformatting and editing than I did proofreading.

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread deloptes
Doug McGarrett wrote: > Does your repo have cuneiform? I found that cuneiform works LOTS better > than tesseract. > (You can find cuneiform in the rpmfind app, and convert it with alien if > you can't find a deb version.) Looks like it is 10y old already - as I said - all the investments in

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
deloptes writes: > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >> I used tesseract-ocr, mentioned previously, a couple of years ago with >> very good success.  Also, the problem he's trying to solve is much > > what means very good success? You had to proof read it at the end - time > spent. For me either something

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 07/31/2019 02:22 PM, deloptes wrote: Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I used tesseract-ocr, mentioned previously, a couple of years ago with very good success. Also, the problem he's trying to solve is much what means very good success? You had to proof read it at the end - time spent. For me

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread deloptes
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I used tesseract-ocr, mentioned previously, a couple of years ago with > very good success.  Also, the problem he's trying to solve is much what means very good success? You had to proof read it at the end - time spent. For me either something works or it doesn't none of

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
deloptes writes: > Martin McCormick wrote: > >> I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running >> debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention >> to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other >> brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread David Christensen
On 7/30/19 10:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: I've been trying to do the impossible, more like the impractical, for some time now so I need a knowledge infusion. I want to be able to read the VGA output of a computer, do OCR on it and have ASCII text. As a computer user

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread john doe
On 7/30/2019 7:01 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running > debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention > to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other > brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running > debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention > to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other > brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for some > reason and the only

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread john doe
On 7/30/2019 8:12 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the >> most frustrating issues is the fact that except for expensive >> servers, none of these boxes output any machine readable text >> when booting up or in setup mode such as when the coin

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the > most frustrating issues is the fact that except for expensive > servers, none of these boxes output any machine readable text > when booting up or in setup mode such as when the coin cell that > powers the CMOS BIOS gives up the

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Martin McCormick wrote: > I've been trying to do the impossible, more like the > impractical, for some time now so I need a knowledge infusion. > > I want to be able to read the VGA output of a computer, > do OCR on it and have ASCII text. > > As a computer user who happens to

Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread Martin McCormick
I've been trying to do the impossible, more like the impractical, for some time now so I need a knowledge infusion. I want to be able to read the VGA output of a computer, do OCR on it and have ASCII text. As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the most