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Back to paper (and typewriters)

2021-09-20

2021 is probably my most productive year in term of words written. But not on my blog nor on this gemlog. The reason is quite simple :ā€ÆI fell in love with typewriters. Iā€™m now writing mostly on paper, choosing the best paper Iā€Æcan find, anotating, reading and re-reading what Iā€Ædid.

I love typewriters and highly recommend any smolnet user to read "The Typewriter Revolution" by Richard Polt which encapsulates perfectly all the good (and bad) reasons to use a typewriter in this morden era.

Yes, I miss my BĆ©po keyboard. Iā€™m back on Azerty (on my typewriters, not on my computer or my Freewrite). Thereā€™s lot to say. Too much for this small gemlog.

But Iā€™m dreaming of building a scanner that would do some OCR and automatically publish what I feed to a gemlog. This would be without any screen interaction at all (which would means quite a few typos).

Iā€™ve investigated a bit but I donā€™t know where to start. My OCR tests are quite bad with my typewriters (mixing a and e for example).

Donā€™t hesitate to contact lionel at ploum.net if you have any lead.

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