I highlight paper books. A small open model types my quotes while I sleep

Описание и применение

Dogear автоматически извлекает выделенные фрагменты из бумажных книг, используя OCR и модель Gemma 4, и предоставляет их для проверки утром, экономя часы ручного ввода.

Задача

Copying highlighted passages from paper books into a digital format is time‑consuming and tedious.

Результат

Dogear reduces manual transcription from 30–60 minutes per book to a single photo per highlighted page and a brief morning review, costing only a few cents per night.

Рабочий процесс

• Add a book by typing or photographing its cover
• Photograph each highlighted page while the book is open
• Upload photos to a private bucket
• Nightly cron job runs Tesseract OCR and Gemma 4 on a CPU to extract highlighted passages
• Store each quote with a crop of the passage
• Delete processed photos
• Morning review: keep, edit, delete or add missed quotes
• Export to Notion (planned)

Доказательства

Dogear removes that chore. While reading, the only extra thing I do is take a photo of each page I highlighted. Overnight, a small open-weight model running on a plain CPU in the cloud reads the photos and pulls out exactly the highlighted passages.

Источник

The night-run numbers are a real line from the Render log.

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The full loop works: library, page capture, night run and morning review.

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