October 20th, 2008 at 9:32pm |
taken from http://www.linux.com/feature/138511
How to scan and OCR like a pro with open source tools
By Mathis Dirksen-Thedens on June 24, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)
With optical character recognition (OCR), you can scan the contents of a document into a single file of editable text. This article, which focuses on scanning books, describes the steps you need to take [...]
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October 7th, 2008 at 5:29pm |
With Firefox 3.0 some autocompletion features have been introduced, specifically the ones concerning the location bar can be somehow annoying. Here’s how to disable them.
To prevent entries from History or bookmarked items from appearing but show those that you have specifically typed into the Location Bar (url bar), use about:config to toggle browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped to true. [...]
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October 3rd, 2008 at 12:15pm |
here is an interesting thread about batch resizing images.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=170862
Basically you can use gThumb (opening multiple files at once with this app) or digikam. GIMP currently has support for batch operations only in its development branch.
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