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Building a searchable archive for the San Francisco Microscopical Society

The San Francisco Microscopical Society was founded in 1870 by a group of scientists dedicated to advancing the field of microscopy.

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5:24 pm / 25th August 2022 / ocr, projects, datasette, weeknotes

Litestream backups for Datasette Cloud (and weeknotes)

My main focus this week has been adding robust backups to the forthcoming Datasette Cloud.

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5:19 pm / 11th August 2022 / ocr, s3, datasette, weeknotes, datasettecloud, fly, litestream, gpt3, dalle

s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

I’ve released s3-ocr, a new tool that runs Amazon’s Textract OCR text extraction against PDF files in an S3 bucket, then writes the resulting text out to a SQLite database with full-text search configured so you can run searches against the extracted data.

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9:40 pm / 30th June 2022 / aws, ocr, projects, s3, weeknotes, s3credentials

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