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For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.

The best transcribed post each week will be pinned and receive a random bitmap of a trophy superimposed with the author's username and a personalized message. Here are some OCR tools to assist you in your endeavors:

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FOSS Android Recs per u/[email protected]: 1 , 2

Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.

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No winners ~~contenders~~ yet for this week's Excellence in Post Transcription Award... (self.curatedtumblr)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Apytele to c/curatedtumblr

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Edit: 😥

@[email protected] has won two weeks in a row now (1,2) (sort of, I've only been doing this like a week and a half now). They haven't made a post yet this week (which is fine, they deserve a break) so the rest of you need to step up! 👏👏

Some OCR tools are listed in the sidebar but here they are as well (still taking FOSS recommendations)

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iOS
FOSS Android Recs per u/[email protected]: 1 , 2

The grand prize is me googling clipart of a trophy cup which I will then personalize using imgflip, and will be awarded Monday assuming my life has not been struck by some new and interesting calamity. May the most interesting transcription (that remains accurate) win!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On Linux there's https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract, which is FOSS. There's several Android apps on f-droid that use it:

[–] Apytele 2 points 1 week ago

updated, ty