Re: .uvc WebCam Data

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: .uvc WebCam Data
Date	2019-08-12 20:30 +0200
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Martin McCormick wrote: 
> 	The tesseract utility flawlessly converted the sample jpg
> in to ASCII text so I tried that
> other Linux box's VGA port.  This certainly looks like not much
> of anything but I was happy to get it:
> 
> Debian GNU/Linux 10 audios tty
> 
> audio3 login: [43431.294393] print_req_error: 1/0 error, dev fd0, sector 0
> [43431.338633] print_reqerror: 1/0 error, dev fdo, sector 0
> 
> 	I guess I may have stuck a blank disk in to the drive or
> something as it looks like it is complaining about being unable
> to read the floppy disk.  It also may be left over from booting
> as the floppy is the first boot source and empty.

...
 
> 	Anyway, I want to thank everybody who supplied helpful
> information.  The tesseract OCR, so far, exceeds my expectations
> of it's ability to decode the VGA text from just 1 frame of
> capture.  I think I can do BIOS setups, probably much more
> slowly, but still it beats wasting other people's time especially
> when one runs in to a situation where stuff isn't quite right and
> one has to revisit the same task several times before things
> shake out correctly.  It is also possible to save the screen
> shots for posterity which is nice if you haven't done some task
> in a year or so and are having to remind yourself what you did.

This is really cool, and I think you should write it up as an
article.

-dsr-

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.uvc WebCam Data "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-08 19:10 +0200
  Re: .uvc WebCam Data Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-08-08 21:20 +0200
    Re: .uvc WebCam Data "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-08 22:30 +0200
      Re: .uvc WebCam Data deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-09 00:10 +0200
        Re: .uvc WebCam Data Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-08-09 02:30 +0200
          Re: .uvc WebCam Data "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-09 14:40 +0200
        Re: .uvc WebCam Data "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-09 05:10 +0200
    Re: .uvc WebCam Data "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-12 19:20 +0200
      Re: .uvc WebCam Data Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-08-12 20:30 +0200

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