Re: .uvc WebCam Data
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-
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