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Scanning with sane’s scanimage from an ADF scanner to PDF and OCRed Text

Published by Jonah on January 5, 2008 in Uncategorized, hacks, linux, scanning, software and ubuntu. 8 Comments

Using libsane and tesseract, you can scan from an ADF (or non ADF) scanner in Ubuntu 7.10 to a PDF and OCR’ed text document with a few easy steps.

First we need to make sure we have the necessary packages installed.

apt-get install tesseract-ocr sane-utils

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Wikifying my life

Published by Jonah on March 2, 2007 in Uncategorized, gradwork, hacks and oss. 0 Comments

I started working on my PhD proposal and decided that it would be best done as a wiki. I have been using MoinMoin for a wiki in my lab with my labmates. I like MoinMoin, but I don’t like how much of a pain it is to install it on debian. I decided to go back to mediawiki as it seems to be performing a bit better these days and is increasingly the standard wiki markup. So I have a mediawiki set up now for tracking my research, my reading and my PhD proposal. I might even get really brave and do my whole dissertation in wiki form.
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