jvillemare

import os			    # for magick and tesseract commands
import time			  # for epoch time
import calendar 	# for epoch time
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger

dir_files = [f for f in os.listdir(".") if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(".", f))]
epoch_time = int(calendar.timegm(time.gmtime()))
print(dir_files)

for file in dir_files: # look at every file in the current directory

jvillemare

OCR Scan images on MacOS for free, and easy

Scanning images with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is immensely helpful to find what you're looking for later solely by using the text in the image when searching. OCR is big money, so of course, there's no easy way to do it with a nice UI. Many of these apps cost $10, $20, or more, which is unreasonable.

Tesseract is a free, open-source OCR application that many of the paid apps "borrow", repackage, and sell at a high mark up. Unfortunately, when I say application, I mean a command line interface. So, it's not terribly intuitive. But we can simplify it.