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authorNick White <git@njw.name>2020-11-17 17:46:27 +0000
committerNick White <git@njw.name>2020-11-17 17:46:27 +0000
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@@ -14,15 +14,13 @@ because why not? At the moment it's a command line only tool.
*rescribe* is a part of our [bookpipeline](https://rescribe.xyz/bookpipeline)
package, and we provide pre built executables for it which can be
-downloaded for each platform here:
+downloaded for each platform here - save them to wherever you want
+to run the program from:
* [Linux](https://rescribe.xyz/rescribe/0.3.0/rescribe)
* [OS X](https://rescribe.xyz/rescribe/0.3.0/osx/rescribe)
* [Windows](https://rescribe.xyz/rescribe/0.3.0/rescribe.exe)
-Note that if you're on Linux or OS X you will probably need to run
-`chmod +x rescribe` after downloading, to make it executable.
-
Next, you need to install the Tesseract OCR engine, which the
tool uses for the core OCR step. If you're on Linux this should be
available from your package manager,
@@ -44,6 +42,10 @@ the run box, on OSX it's under Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal,
and if you're on Linux I bet you already know where to find your
terminal.
+Firstly, if you're on Linux or OSX you will probably need to make
+the program executable after downloading it, so do that now by
+running `chmod +x rescribe`. You'll only have to do that once.
+
You use *rescribe* by giving it the path of a training file to use
and the directory containing the book or manuscript pages you want
to OCR. Basic usage looks like this: