OCR

#!/bin/zsh

BASE=/tmp/tesseracttemp_$$
TMP=$BASE.txt
LOG=$HOME/Library/Logs/tesseract-ocr.log
DATE=$(date "+%b %d %H:%M:%S")
LOGHEADER="$DATE OCR[$$]:"
FILENAME=$(basename "$1")

cd /tmp/

rm -f $TMP
mkfifo $TMP

echo "$LOGHEADER Analyzing file \"$FILENAME\"" >> $LOG
/usr/local/bin/tesseract "$1" "$BASE" --psm 12 |& sed "s/^/$LOGHEADER    /" >>$LOG &
cat $TMP
rm -f $TMP