Installing Crunchbang

• Download Crunchbang development torrent
• Format USB as FAT32
• Download recent version of unetbootin
• Create Debian Unstable HDMedia environment on USB
• Copy Crunchbang ISO to USB at root
• Boot from USB to install

Post install:

• Add account to sudoers with visudo
• Add http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ and http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ to /etc/apt/sources.list
• Add "setxkbmap us &" to ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh to set US keyboard
• install ttf-* packages for foreign fonts (Chinese: arphic-uming, Korean: unfonts-extra)
• Install vim, codecs, etc
• Customize .vimrc, .bashrc

iso install

1. Find path to USB with: ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*usb*
2. Format USB to FAT32: sudo umount /dev/sdx && sudo mkfs.vfat -I -n "custom name" /dev/sdX
3. Replug USB
4. Write ISO to usb with: sudo dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync (or use UNetbootin)
5. Make USB first in BIOS boot order (hit F2 or Del at startup)

OCR for Linux

I tried a few solutions to extract text out of a clear image containing alan0@hotmail.com:
Install with: sudo apt-get install gocr tesseract ocrad

$ gocr -i email.png
aIan0hdmaiI.com

$ convert email.png email.tif # requires tif
$ tesseract email.tif out
$ cat out.txt
Ina rrykeeg a

$ convert email.png email.ppm # requires p[bgp]m
$ ocrad email.ppm
alano_no_mall.


Upscaling the image slightly improved the results but still none were correct.
Disappointing ...