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@ -13,28 +13,28 @@ there is no unnecessary jitter).
Make sure you have libpng installed and if you type "libpng-config" on the
commandline, there's a program which prints something.
Compile with "make". Become root (su -) and type "make install". Now you have
Compile with ``make``. Become root ``su -`` and type ``make install``. Now you have
optar, unoptar and pgm2ps installed on your system in /usr/local/bin. Later
you can uninstall by typing "make uninstall" the same way as you typed
"make install".
you can uninstall by typing ``make uninstall`` the same way as you typed
``make install``.
Encoding (writing)
------------------
Run
./optar other_guys.ogg other_guys.ogg
``./optar other_guys.ogg other_guys.ogg``
which will produce files:
other_guys.ogg_0001.pgm
other_guys.ogg_0002.pgm
other_guys.ogg_0003.pgm
other_guys.ogg_0004.pgm
other_guys.ogg_0005.pgm
other_guys.ogg_0006.pgm
* other_guys.ogg_0001.pgm
* other_guys.ogg_0002.pgm
* other_guys.ogg_0003.pgm
* other_guys.ogg_0004.pgm
* other_guys.ogg_0005.pgm
* other_guys.ogg_0006.pgm
Now convert them into PostScript using the included pgm2ps tool:
./pgm2ps *.pgm
``./pgm2ps *.pgm``
Print them using a 600dpi (or more) laser printer. Inkjet or dot matrix was
never tested and will not probably work at the pre-defined data density. See
@ -51,18 +51,18 @@ yellow pages on the scanner lid to get sharper picture *). Insert the
page so that the text on the bottom is upright. Scan the pages into
PNG (not JPEG!) on 600dpi (or 1200dpi, slightly better):
scan_0001.png
scan_0002.png
scan_0003.png
scan_0004.png
scan_0005.png
scan_0006.png
* scan_0001.png
* scan_0002.png
* scan_0003.png
* scan_0004.png
* scan_0005.png
* scan_0006.png
Read the number sequence (format specification) from any of the papers and feed
it as 1st argument to the optar, 2nd argument is the filename part before the
underscore:
unoptar 0-65-93-24-3-1-2-24 scan > out.ogg
``unoptar 0-65-93-24-3-1-2-24 scan > out.ogg``
Then play out.ogg with mplayer. You should get first about 41 seconds from the
Ogg Vorbis file.
@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Future improvement
camera. Currently it cannot since digital camera blurs at the sides of
the picture.
(c) GPL 2007 Karel 'Clock' Kulhavy of Twibright Labs
© GPL 2007 Karel 'Clock' Kulhavy of Twibright Labs
See COPYING for the text of the GPL license.
e-mail: clock (at) twibright (dot) com
Twibright Optar homepage: http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/