mirror of https://github.com/CIRCL/Circlean
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Notes
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* don't plug in USB devices with a hub because there's no way to tell it which
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is source and target - its the first drive enumerated (top port) that is the
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source and the second (bottom port) is the target
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* don't turn it off without shutting down the system, when grooming is done it
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shuts down automatically: losing power while it's running can trash the OS
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on the SD cards because SD cards don't always like dirty shutdowns (ie power loss)
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* Using a target usb stick that has a status light as long as the device has
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power is a really useful thing as there the other status lights on the groomer
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are less than indicative at times: because the 'OK' led on the rPi toggles on activity
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it can be off for a long time while processing something and only comes back
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on when that process finishes - hence why a USB that has some sort of LED activity
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when just plugged in (even if not reading or writing but while the USB port is
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powered) is helpful in determining when the process is finished - when
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the rPI is shutdown, the USB port power is shut off and that LED will also
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then be off on the USB device
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* Use a larger target device as all zip files get unpacked and processed onto
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the target
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* if you have an hdmi monitor plugged in you can watch what's happening for about
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30 minutes until the rPI's power saving kicks in and turns off the monitor
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* if only one usb stick is present at power up, it doesn't groom and looks like
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a normal rPi
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* if you want to ssh into the rPi username is 'pi' password 'raspberry' as per defaults
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Technical notes
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* groomer script is in /opt/groomer/ with the other required files
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* dependencies are libre-office and OpenJRE
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* and the ip address is 192.168.1.89
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* the groomer process is kicked off in /etc/rc.local
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* the heavy lifting takes place or is dispatched from /opt/groomer/groomer.sh
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in that script file is what file types get processed (or if not listed there,
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get ignored)
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* there are two ways pdf's can get handled -right now they have their text extracted
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to the target device, the other way copies it and extracts the text
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* the pdf text extraction isn't perfect and is the slowest part of it, but should
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be able to handle unicode stuff and currently doesn't do image extraction from
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pdf's but could do that too
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Discussion
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* however image exports of pdf pages only have the images and no text so it's not
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like saving each page to a jpg which would be a really handy and safe way of
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converting pdf's
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* spread sheets and presentations get converted to pdfs to kill off any embedded
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macros and it's assumed that it's not producing evil pdf's on export but does
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nothing to sanitize any embedded links within those documents
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* for spreadsheets, if they are longer than a page, only a page worth from that
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sheet is exported right from the middle of the sheet (ie the top and bottom of
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that sheet will get cut off and only the contents in the middle exported to pdf)
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dumb but i figure if you want to go back to the source because it's interesting
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enough on the groomed side of it, then you can take the extra precautions
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* the groomed target only copies "safe" files, and does its best to convert any
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potential unsafe files to a safer format
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* safe files being one that I know of that can't contain malicious embedded macros
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or other crap like that, and those than can get converted to something that wont
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contain code after conversion
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