Developing an Emacs major mode is perhaps unnecessarily complex, but it offers unmatched flexibility and control.
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eddieh
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Develop an Emacs Major Mode
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January 31, 2016 02:05
Converting a scanned PDF to EPUB ebook (or other format)
Caveat
You're not going to get a beautiful EPUB out the other end - if that's what you're looking for, expect to do some manual clean-up work yourself.
Basic order of operations:
- Convert your PDF to an OCR-friendly format
- OCR that shit into plaintext
- Convert that plaintext into your format of choice (in this case, an EPUB)
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| package main | |
| import ( | |
| "fmt" | |
| "os" | |
| "os/exec" | |
| "syscall" | |
| ) | |
| func main() { |
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Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
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| echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc | |
| . ~/.bashrc | |
| mkdir ~/local | |
| mkdir ~/node-latest-install | |
| cd ~/node-latest-install | |
| curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1 | |
| ./configure --prefix=~/local | |
| make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds... | |
| curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh |