[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge bylaws

Ani Niow v at oneletterwonder.com
Tue Mar 9 00:32:54 UTC 2010


I just ran it through Acrobat Pro's OCR and came up with a pretty
reasonable interpretation. Here it is as rich text:
http://oneletterwonder.com/screenies/nb.bylaws.rtf

Tried to attach the converted PDF to the wiki but it didn't turn out
for some reason. Oh well.

-Ani



On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Vlad Spears's message of Fri Mar 05 11:41:15 -0800 2010:
>> This is the One True version of the Noisebridge bylaws, certed by our
>> Secretary in February of last year and submitted to the State.
>>
>> I've uploaded a scan to the wiki.  Apologies for the slight lean to
>> the contents... it's in the original.
>>
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/File:Noisebridge_bylaws_020090206.pdf
>
> Thanks again for scanning this, Vlad. I suspect the PDF will do for
> reference purposes, though I wanted to try and OCR the pages so that we
> have some nice clean text to use.
>
> I've split the PDF into PPM's of each page and am trying to run gocr
> over the images to comedic effect. All the text is coming out
> hax0r/gibberish:
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> BYLAWS
> DF
> NOtSEBRDGE
>
> A C8IfOrna N0nprOnt PubIic Bencit Comogtion
>
> Ah'c!e1  Nme
>
> The name dthi8 c0rcoraton is Noi8ebridge.
>
> ....
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Has anyone mastered OCR on *nix in the past? How can one either clean the input
> images or train the recognition of characters?
>
> --j
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