pgsrip-script

This is a simple script to batch execute pgsrip. pgsrip should already be capable for scanning through subfolders and ripping files in batches, however I could not get my system fully saturated with just the standard options. So I build this simple script to burn through more media at once.

Installation

pgsrip dependencies (copied from original repo)

MKVToolNix:

[Linux/WSL - Ubuntu/Debian]
sudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix

[Windows/Chocolatey]
choco install mkvtoolnix

tesseract:

PPA is used to install latest tesseract 5.x. Skip PPA repository if you decide to stick with latest official Debian/Ubuntu package

[Linux/WSL - Ubuntu/Debian]
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-p/tesseract-ocr5
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

[Windows/Chocolatey]
choco install tesseract-ocr

tessdata:

git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best.git

# Usually the script recommends setting TESSDATA_PREFIX to indicate the OCR data
export TESSDATA_PREFIX=~/tessdata_best
# The script should handle that if you go in and edit the relevant line

Installation for script

python -m venv .venv

# Linux & MacOS
source .venv/bin/activate

# Windows
.\.venv\Scripts\activate

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

Now you should be almost ready to run the script.

Head on to the main.py and change the last 2 lines as you see fit. Those being the location of the OCR data from the tessdata_best git repo you cloned earlier on Line 31 and the location of the directory where your media files reside on Line 32.

WARNING: The script will run with the max number of thread available on your machine. If you wish to change this behavior add processes=NUMBER_OF_THREADS to Line 45: Pool(processes=NUMBER_OF_THREADS).

Afterwards simply run python main.py and the script will do the rest.

Huge thank you to ratoaq2 for the awesome pgsrip module.