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Install Tesseract with German language support in Gentoo

I needed to scan some German text documents and wanted to convert them to actual text. I came across Tesseract, “the industry-standard free, open-source Optical Character Recognition engine”, according to its website.

I installed the software and tried to convert my scanned document with an adapted default command I found on the program’s website ...

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Via Jura Stage 7

With the sunny weather last weekend I decided to hike the last stage of the Via Jura hiking route. I was quite amazed and decided to share some photos. It was mostly beautiful nature, and here and there some brutalist constructions.

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View from the Beobachtungsturm Häftli.

Hike around nature reserve Häftli

I recently decided to start hiking for a healthier lifestyle and to spend more time in nature and not before a computer.

For my first hike I decided to walk around the nature reserve Häftli. Being almost entirely flat and only a bit more than 10 km, it’s easy ...

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Vertical Forest, Milan

I recently stumbled upon the “Vertical Forest” (ital. Bosco Verticale) in Milan, an award-winning skyscraper complex. Doesn’t it look cool?