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-
