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Nate Craun
Personal blog · natecraun.net/articles · on HN as ncraunprogrammingsystems
Nate Craun's personal blog at natecraun.net covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “A Linux Guide to Book Scanning”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nate Craun's guides on scanning books and processing the scans with Linux tools, plus his SmoothScan project. Commenters point to them as practical references for digitizing books and lab notebooks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hello, I’m Nate Craun, a computer scientist. Welcome to my home on the World Wide Web! On here I have hosted projects I am working (software and otherwise...
Most-linked posts?
- A Linux Guide to Book Scanning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-26
What Hacker News says?
A physical book can readily be hand-scanned in an hour. There are numerous guides to processing the scans from that point. Two of the besst I've found: https://natecraun.net/articles/linux-guide-to-book-scanning.... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Creating_a_DjVu_file
Comment linking /articles/linux-guide-to-book-scanning.html
on ““The books will stop working.””Submitted Struct Iteration Through Abuse of the C Preprocessor as a story · 51 points
HN discussionThis is an old article, so maybe some software isn't the best option nowadays, but you can get the idea of postprocessing: http://natecraun.net/articles/linux-guide-to-book-scanning.h...
Comment linking /articles/linux-guide-to-book-scanning.html
on “DIY Book Scanner”Submitted Smoothscan - a tool to convert scanned text into a vectorized output form as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAdobe has a tool for that, and Nate Craun (who has an aging but still amazing tutorial on scanning books from Linux) had made one too. https://www.natecraun.net/projects/smoothscan.html
Comment linking /projects/smoothscan.html
on “Help Make the 19th Century Searchable”Submitted Struct Iteration Through Abuse of the C Preprocessor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis guide [0] is intended for digitizing books, but it can lead you to some places. If you can get your scans to a PDF (e.g. with a scanner or a smartphone app), you can always try OCRmyPDF [1] to perform the OCR for you.[2] has some tips, but try to look for an older version in Wayback Machine, as I think it has been condenses for the worse. [0] https://www.natecraun.net/articles/linux-guide-to-book-scann... [1] h…
Comment linking /articles/linux-guide-to-book-scanning.html
on “How to digitize your lab notebooks”Submitted A Linux Guide to Book Scanning as a story · 1 points
HN discussion