Data wrangling quotes

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:22:56 +0000

I have over the last few years captured screenshots on my phone of quotes from the Economist Espresso news app.

Whatever quote I liked at the time I took a screenshot of, and now I wanted to use those quotes for something.

To do that I needed to get the quotes into a text file, which meant doing a few things:

Download all the quotes from Google Photos, and crop out just the quote. These are stored in the quotes folder
Use the tesseract command line tool to OCR the images into text, see quotes/ocr.sh
Because OCR isn’t perfect, I needed to manually inspect and make some changes..

Point 3 is key for what this repo is about. I’ve been building Sigbla for a while now and this is the perfect tool for this task.

Data Wrangling on Blog of Christian Felde