From d7f86500b1f096925b52455c8ccdc3c312b6faa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick White Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:26:22 +0000 Subject: Add post about v1.0.0 of desktop tool --- content/posts/desktop-tool-0.4.0/index.md | 2 +- content/posts/desktop-tool-1.0.0/index.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++ content/posts/desktop-tool-1.0.0/screenshot-01.png | Bin 0 -> 38294 bytes content/posts/desktop-tool/index.md | 2 +- content/posts/kickstarter-success/index.md | 2 +- content/posts/kickstarter/index.md | 2 +- 6 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/posts/desktop-tool-1.0.0/index.md create mode 100644 content/posts/desktop-tool-1.0.0/screenshot-01.png diff --git a/content/posts/desktop-tool-0.4.0/index.md b/content/posts/desktop-tool-0.4.0/index.md index 7ebfb94..79ea913 100644 --- a/content/posts/desktop-tool-0.4.0/index.md +++ b/content/posts/desktop-tool-0.4.0/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: "Major new release of Rescribe Desktop Tool" date: 2021-07-13 -categories: [software, code, tools] +categories: [software, tools, desktop tool] --- We've just released a major new version of our desktop OCR tool called *Rescribe*, which we first described diff --git a/content/posts/desktop-tool-1.0.0/index.md b/content/posts/desktop-tool-1.0.0/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88df3d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/desktop-tool-1.0.0/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +title: "Rescribe Desktop Tool v1.0.0 released" +date: 2022-03-22 +categories: [software, tools, desktop tool, pdf] +--- +Today we're very happy to announce the v1.0.0 release of the +desktop OCR tool *Rescribe*. It's free to download now from +[our Rescribe page](https://rescribe.xyz/rescribe), +and it will work on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. + +![Screenshot of rescribe tool](screenshot-01.png) + +This release brings several major new features, a graphical +interface, support for reading PDFs directly, and an integrated +Google Book downloader chief among them. There are heaps of +smaller changes, too, like removing the limitation to name image +files in a particular way, adding the option to disable +automatic margin wiping, and adding the option to create the +searchable PDF using original size page images, for those who +value quality more than disk space in their PDFs. + +This wouldn't have been possible without the generous support +of backers from [Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2043301600/rescribe-a-high-quality-ocr-tool-for-historic-books), +who as well as backing us with their money also kindly offered +their time and energy to test early Beta versions of the software, +and gave great suggestions for changes and features to add. + + +If you have any problems with it, please do let us know at +[info@rescribe.xyz](mailto:info@rescribe.xyz) and we'll be happy +to help you out. + +And a friendly reminder that if you have or are considering a +project where historical OCR could be useful, do reach out, we're +always happy to advise and help with such projects, whether large +or small! diff --git a/content/posts/desktop-tool-1.0.0/screenshot-01.png b/content/posts/desktop-tool-1.0.0/screenshot-01.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..08c81cc Binary files /dev/null and b/content/posts/desktop-tool-1.0.0/screenshot-01.png differ diff --git a/content/posts/desktop-tool/index.md b/content/posts/desktop-tool/index.md index 6c4ab2d..f1b885b 100644 --- a/content/posts/desktop-tool/index.md +++ b/content/posts/desktop-tool/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: "Desktop Tool" date: 2020-11-11 -categories: [software, code, tools] +categories: [software, tools, desktop tool] --- While [our pipeline](/posts/tool-overview) works well for OCR of a corpus efficiently using cloud servers, it was hard to get the diff --git a/content/posts/kickstarter-success/index.md b/content/posts/kickstarter-success/index.md index de18b04..56a489f 100644 --- a/content/posts/kickstarter-success/index.md +++ b/content/posts/kickstarter-success/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: "Kickstarter campaign succeeded" date: 2022-01-04 -categories: [software] +categories: [desktop tool] --- Great news, our [Kickstarter campaign](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2043301600/rescribe-a-high-quality-ocr-tool-for-historic-books) successfully surpassed its funding goal! We're already hard at diff --git a/content/posts/kickstarter/index.md b/content/posts/kickstarter/index.md index 758b341..38e32ac 100644 --- a/content/posts/kickstarter/index.md +++ b/content/posts/kickstarter/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: "Kickstarter campaign" date: 2021-11-23 -categories: [software] +categories: [desktop tool] --- Today we have launched something entirely new for us: a [Kickstarter campaign](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2043301600/rescribe-a-high-quality-ocr-tool-for-historic-books)! We're hoping to raise funds in order for us to further -- cgit v1.2.1-24-ge1ad