<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 Feb 2019, at 17:37, Stefan Claas <<a href="mailto:sac@300baud.de" class="">sac@300baud.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:50:06 +0100, Stefan Claas wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:23:56 +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 30/01/2019 20:44, Stefan Claas wrote: <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">But which one ... ;-) I may check this again with a friend. <br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Well there are the classical options:<br class=""><<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A</a>><br class=""><<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-B" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-B</a>><br class=""><br class="">Debian provides free fonts like that as packages fonts-ocr-a and<br class="">fonts-ocr-b, which come from:<br class=""><<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocr-a-font" class="">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocr-a-font</a>><br class="">and<br class=""><<a href="http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/fonts.php" class="">http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/fonts.php</a>> <br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Thanks, i will take a look!<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">O.k. just did some tests again with old .pdf's containing images<br class="">of scanned text and then also used a jpeg image (small resolution)<br class="">with the free tesseract.<br class=""><br class="">Tesseract did not do a good job, to many errors.<br class=""><br class="">Then i googled a bit and ... Google can do it.<br class=""><br class="">According to a youtube video you need a gmail account, upload to<br class="">Google Drive and then from there open the image or pdf with<br class="">Google Docs, which does imho the best job i have seen do far.<br class=""><br class="">I will do more tests, once time permits.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">It is a bit of a hack - and quite setting specific for us - but we’ve been using</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://github.com/dirkx/gpg-offline-batch-key-" class="">https://github.com/dirkx/gpg-offline-batch-key-</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and had to occasionally recover keys (every few years or so).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Typical output below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dw.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></body></html>