This is a small program that aims to help catalogue books on a bookshelf.
The program uses OpenCV and Tesseract to look for titles in the framed image of a webcam and builds up a list.
sudo apt install libleptonica-dev
cmake -B build
cmake --build build --parallel 4
cd build
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/refs/heads/main/ita.traineddata
wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2ingd0l3zt8hxs/frozen_east_text_detection.tar.gz
tar -xvf frozen_east_text_detection.tar.gz
./bin/exshelf