Find Columns

This repo is an experiment to see if I can use openCV to generate pretty good cropped images of newspaper columns

Prerequisites

• a chronicling america batch
  • run gwget --recursive -A .jp2 --no-parent --no-host-directories --cut-dirs 2 --reject index.html* --no-check-certificate https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/dlc_flavory_ver01/
• python installed
• tesseract installed

Running on Windows

• open powershell
• run env\Scripts\activate.ps1
• run pip install -r requirements.txt
• modify any needed variables (at the top of the python scripts) or use the program args
• run python.exe .\<SCRIPT NAME> where Githubissues.
• Githubissues is a development platform for aggregating issues.