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sterlingwes / README.md
Created 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)
@julz
julz / main.go
Created November 20, 2015 12:39
containersched minicontainer
package main
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"os/exec"
"syscall"
)
func main() {
@isaacs
isaacs / node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
Last active May 16, 2024 16:51
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.
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