A picture worths a thousand words, really? Let see how many, indeed!

OCRism

#!/bin/bash

# path where reside images for OCR 
path=$1
filename=''
ocrized=''
home=$(pwd)

# cd $path

# create a collecting file for ocr text
collector=$2
# cycle through all images and ocr-ize them
for file in $(ls -f $path/*.png); do
	# filename=$path/$file
	filename=$file
	ocrized="${filename%.*}.txt"
	echo "ocr-ize $filename"
	if [ -f $filename ]; then
		tesseract $filename ${filename%.*}
		echo "append ocr $ocrized to collector file $collector"
		cat $ocrized >> $collector
		# echo $ocrized
	fi
done

# cd home