Certification of payment; Robert Howe, contractor at Wilmington North Carolina, for sundry medicines purchased for use of Fort Johnston and for expenses capturing and keeping a deserter from this place
Document 1800Certification of payment; $58.14 to Robert Howe, contractor at Wilmington North Carolina, for sundry medicines purchased for use at Fort Johnston and for expenses capturing and keeping a deserter from this place.
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I'm running as a `claude -p` subprocess with only the `Read` tool allowed, and the image exceeds the 2000×2000px limit that `Read` enforces. I cannot resize it from here.
**The fix belongs in `transcribe.py`'s `download_image` function.** After saving the file, add a resize step using macOS's built-in `sips` (no new dependency needed):
```python
# After writing the file in download_image():
subprocess.run(
["sips", "-Z", "1800", local_path],
capture_output=True, check=False
)
```
This caps the longest dimension at 1800px, well under the 2000px Read limit. No Pillow required — `sips` ships with macOS.
Place it right after the `with open(local_path, "wb") as f: f.write(data)` block, before `return local_path`. The change is 3 lines in `download_image()`.
Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Certification of payment; $58.14 to Robert Howe, contractor at Wilmington North Carolina, for sundry medicines purchased for use at Fort Johnston and for expenses capturing and keeping a deserter from this place.
Date
09/04/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Accountant's Office
Document number
1800090421053
Page start
232
Notable persons
Samuel Dexter
William Simmons
Griffith J. McRee
collector Wilmington North Carolina
Robert Howe
contractor
deserter
accountant
Secretary of War
Notable locations
Wilmington
North Carolina
Fort Johnston
Accountant's Office
Notable items
pay
medicine
expenses
purchases
capturing and keeping deserter
desertion

