Python GUI masters needed

[Jared Whiklo]

Hi all,

In a fit of stupidity I put forth this bold idea (https://github.com/openelections/openelections-sources-in/issues/3#issuecomment-311087616).

Fast forward a couple weeks and I remember that I hate programming GUIs and even more trying to coordinate backend processes.

Also I am not a Python programmer by trade (though I do love it for scripting), so I need some help.

Here is the code I have, its not a lot. https://github.com/whikloj/HocrEditor

First you need tesseract installed, which actually performs the HOCR.

If you run hocreditor.py it opens a small window to choose a PDF file and an output directory. If you hit the Run Hocr button it does work, it will add a new directory to your chosen output directory and throw PNG images for each page and an hocr output for each page.

My goal was/is to then start interacting with the PNG and HOCR to correct bad OCR and map words/areas to columns for the required CSV.

But I can't get the back-end processing to not hold the GUI hostage.

As I said I'm not a Python programmer, so I would appreciate any suggestions. Even if it is that I have started all wrong. All feedback accepted.

cheers,

jared