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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Review/Tips: "Scanning - VueScan and Associates" Pt.I: Intro & Bookscanning
« Last post by Nod5 on August 14, 2010, 02:24 PM »
Hi again brahman,
Right, I really only had OCR for keyword searches in mind but didn't make that clear. I haven't even tried using tesseract to make accurate standalone plaintext versions of scanned documents (I very seldom need that). But if/when I do I'll keep the Abby advice in mind.

I haven't tried ScanKromsator either. I went with ST since it seemed more geared for speed when processing batches of pages. I think its output (and similarly for SK from what I've read) is really, really impressive. I was blown away when I first tried ST in combination with djvulibre! The final output was very close in quality to pdfs made directly from a text file. This is one area where software and hardware seems to develop very fast now. In a world where hundreds of millions of people will over the coming years likely buy an ebook reading device/pad/thingy I guess things will just speed up even more.
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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for August 13th, 2010 - "Heat Waving"
« Last post by Nod5 on August 14, 2010, 05:35 AM »
thank you mouser!
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Review/Tips: "Scanning - VueScan and Associates" Pt.I: Intro & Bookscanning
« Last post by Nod5 on August 14, 2010, 05:29 AM »
Fantastic review brahman!  :Thmbsup:

Some remarks on book/document scanning:

My experience is that scanning to 400 dpi grayscale gives near perfect, OCR'able output after postprocessing. I've found no need for higher dpi for regular black and white text documents.

ScanTailor is excellent. A support forum is here: http://www.diybooksc...um/viewforum.php?f=8 . The amazing diybookscanner.org forum is an incredible general resource on the hardware and software process of book scanning, though most hardware focus is on cool camera based DIY scanner builds. A very helpful and friendly forum.

I have made TiffDjvuOcr, a windows frontend app (for tesseract, djvulibre and imagemagick) that inputs ScanTailor processed .tiffs and outputs an OCRed djvu in one drag and drop step
http://nod5.dcmember...com/tiffdjvuocr.html

A new, similar but more powerful linux frontend is djvubind
http://code.google.com/p/djvubind/
http://www.diybooksc...ic.php?f=3&t=521
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Find And Run Robot / Re: INDEX/CACHE vs REALTIME
« Last post by Nod5 on July 26, 2010, 04:41 PM »
One more (last?  :)) revision: there's no need for separate autohotkey code for path copying in Everything and Explorer. (one could also try removing the IfWinActive parts completely. The hotkey then likely works fine in all apps that use ctrl+c to put files on the clipboard for copying. But there might be hickups in apps that use ctrl+c for something else so I'll keep the limits.)
[Select]
;-- doubletap ctrl+c to copy path in everything and explorer
#IfWinActive, ahk_class ExploreWClass
~^c::
#IfWinActive, ahk_class CabinetWClass
~^c::
#IfWinActive, ahk_class EVERYTHING
~^c::
if A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 500
if A_PriorHotkey = %A_ThisHotkey%
clipboard = %Clipboard%
return
#IfWinActive
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Find And Run Robot / Re: INDEX/CACHE vs REALTIME
« Last post by Nod5 on July 24, 2010, 12:51 PM »
Yes, if you're putting the above into one "master script" then it might interfere with other things. You can add a #IfWinActive below the controlgettext row in my code to prevent that I think.
http://www.autohotke...nds/_IfWinActive.htm

Re explorer: Explorer with tree view pane on has a different ahk_class. Could that be the problem? Try this:
[Select]
#IfWinActive, ahk_class CabinetWClass
~^c::
if A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 500
if A_PriorHotkey = %A_ThisHotkey%
clipboard = %Clipboard%
return
#IfWinActive, ahk_class ExploreWClass
~^c::
if A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 500
if A_PriorHotkey = %A_ThisHotkey%
clipboard = %Clipboard%
return
#IfWinActive
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Find And Run Robot / Re: INDEX/CACHE vs REALTIME
« Last post by Nod5 on July 24, 2010, 05:21 AM »
Armando, I've had that problem with Everything too but I use autohotkey (surprise, surprise!  ;D) to copy the full file path in Everything with control+shift+c:
[Select]
#IfWinActive, ahk_class EVERYTHING
^+c::
controlgettext, clipboard, msctls_statusbar321, ahk_class EVERYTHING
return

edit: I just thought of an alternative solution: do control+c twice rapidly
[Select]
#IfWinActive, ahk_class EVERYTHING
~^c::
if A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 500
if A_PriorHotkey = %A_ThisHotkey%
controlgettext, clipboard, msctls_statusbar321, ahk_class EVERYTHING
return

edit2: just realized that that last solution works just as well for windows explorer - yay!
[Select]
#IfWinActive, ahk_class CabinetWClass
~^c::
if A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 500
if A_PriorHotkey = %A_ThisHotkey%
clipboard = %Clipboard%
return
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Find And Run Robot / Re: INDEX/CACHE vs REALTIME
« Last post by Nod5 on July 23, 2010, 04:26 PM »
In addition to the everything plugins you can also use a FARR alias to quickly open a separate Everything window with a search phrase. I use two spaces at the end of a FARR searchphrase as regex pattern. Very handy as you can first search with FARR and, if what you're looking for isn't found in a second or two, just tap space space.

regular expression pattern box:
^(.*)\s\s$
Results box:
Everything Search: $$1 | dolaunch C:\Program files\Everything\Everything.exe -search "$$1"

(modify the path to fit your installation directory)
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
« Last post by Nod5 on July 10, 2010, 02:41 PM »
reckoner, you can create an alias for that (option > lists > aliases/groups > myaliases > right click and create new.

In the "regular expression" box, add this:
[Select]
^;1$

In the "Results" box add actions you want executed when you type ";1" (see FARR helpfile for details on commands).
Example:
[Select]
.| dolaunch htmlviewurl http://www.fifa.com/ ;;;setsize 300,600,300,600

(This would display the webpage fifa.com in the FARR window immediately when you type ";1")
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Find And Run Robot / Re: What hotkey(s) do *you* use to trigger FARR?
« Last post by Nod5 on June 22, 2010, 12:03 PM »
Pause to show/hide FARR.

ctrl + Pause to open FARR and let it look up the (previously) selected text in a dictionary

I also have an autohotkey script to use Scroll Lock to clear the FARR inputbox and enter some FARR alias (which varies, currently it "alb" for the albumdisplayer plugin). You can hit that combo (pause and then scrollbreak) very quickly.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Goes FARR... sorta
« Last post by Nod5 on June 22, 2010, 11:54 AM »
I just read about googlecl on another site. My first thought was: hey, this would be cool to hook up to FARR! :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: How safe is it to run portable apps on public computers?
« Last post by Nod5 on June 22, 2010, 11:48 AM »
now, this immediately suggests that an extremely useful feature for a vpn/remoteconnect tool would be the use of one-time pads, single-use passwords, hardware key ids.  anyone know of any vpn/remote desktop that supports this?
-mouser (June 21, 2010, 06:15 PM)
That would be really useful! But I don't know of one. I also think it is outright weird that big services like gmail doesn't offer something like that already. You could log in with your regular password and generate and print out 10 temporary passwords that each expire after one use (and to make new ones you'd need the regular pw again).

In response to the original post, I'd definitely try to avoid public computers when accessing work computers or mail servers remotely. Are you sure that a mobile phone with basic internet capacities (like mail) won't be enough? Or a phone tethered to a netbook. (Ok, the OP said he was travelling laptop-free but a tiny netbook add so little weight and bulk that I have a hard time figuring out when it wouldn't be possible to bring.)
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: FFBookmarkUnpacker
« Last post by Nod5 on June 12, 2010, 09:16 AM »
Hm, then I'm afraid I don't know how to solve this. In Firefox 3 doing those steps should result in a bookmarks.html at the standard location. Here is the relevant mozillapage: http://kb.mozillazin...marks.autoExportHTML
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: FFBookmarkUnpacker
« Last post by Nod5 on June 11, 2010, 01:12 PM »
That's the path to a regular FF profile. The script only works on the special bookmarks.html file. Maybe you haven't done this:
- type "about:config" in firefox inputbar
- type "browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML"
- set it to "true"
- close firefox
After that the bookmarks.html file should be generated, and updated, on each firefox restart. And then the FFBookmarkUnpacker should work.
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Living Room / Re: Second Wind - beautiful student animation
« Last post by Nod5 on June 11, 2010, 12:00 PM »
Amazing! I enjoyed that a lot. The tone, coloring and content reminded me of the indie game Braid, http://www.braid-game.com/ .
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: FFBookmarkUnpacker
« Last post by Nod5 on June 11, 2010, 11:51 AM »
Hi Frank,
there's no current ini setting for that. I didn't think it would be needed. To debug this can you tell me the path to the boomarks.html file on your system?

If you have autohotkey installed (or install it, it is free autohotkey.com) then you can easily change the path in FFBookmarkUnpacker.ahk and then run that file instead of the exe (or compile a exe from it). Just replace every instance of this string in the code (3 instances) with a full path to your bookmarks.html file:
[Select]
%A_AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\kutppos6.default\bookmarks.html
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Find And Run Robot / Re: how can i disable the status bar in farr window?
« Last post by Nod5 on May 23, 2010, 10:43 AM »
masu, if you like me wish to keep your FARR gui as minimalistic as possible then check the slender farr skin in this thread:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=7949.0
Also note the AHK script I posted there that hides all text from the statusbar (it grabs much less attention without text):
https://www.donation....msg172845#msg172845
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Finished Programs / Re: help convert short text manipulations code from perl to AHK
« Last post by Nod5 on May 17, 2010, 03:13 PM »
Help received through PM, case closed. Thanks again ewemoa!  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: zen and the art of file and folder organisation
« Last post by Nod5 on May 16, 2010, 03:44 PM »
A lot of good advice in that post!

These are great:
Tip #3.  Choose the Root Folder of Your Structure Carefully ...
“My Documents” is the worst offender.  Every second piece of software you install, it seems, likes to create its own folder in the “My Documents” folder.  These folders usually don’t fit within your organizational structure, so don’t use them!  In fact, don’t even use the “My Documents” folder at all.  Allow it to fill up with junk, and then simply ignore it.

Tip #13.  Create an “Inbox” Folder
Tip #23.  Move Permanent Items on Your Desktop Away from the Top-Left Corner
My addition: keep at least the four leftmost desktop columns blank for temp inbox use.

Tip #37.  Use the Quick Launch Bar as a Application and File Launcher
My tip: I try to limit the number applications I have installed (discounting AHK scripts and the like) to as many icons fit into one column in the quick launch bar popup menu. When the column is full and I install something new then I try to prune an old one. Very often there's one there that I don't use anymore.

These I disagree with:

Tip #25.  Hide Files You Never Need to See
My objection: hiding files is not worth the time. They may also take longer to find when you do need them.

“Only ever have one copy of a file – never have two copies of the same file.  Use a shortcut instead”
For files you work on/manipulate it can make sense with many copies. You have a fallback if you accidentally delete or mess up the file. Make a habit of adding dates to the filename to quickly keep them apart.

Some additional tips:

a) keep in mind from the start that you will change and improve your sorting system over time. Do NOT stick to a system that does not fit your needs. If you get a new job or a new hobby that permanently involves new types of (sets of) files or new computer use patterns then your sorting system likely needs to evolve.

b) schedule cleanups/checkup for your file system.

c) write notes to yourself (in plain textfiles). For example, if you do manual backups for some part of the file system, write a txt file with your actionable backup plan and place it somewhere obvious. If you make a habit of such notes you will come to trust them and no longer feel the need to keep the actual details in memory (just don't forget the note! :D)

d) design the system both in a well planned Hierarchy AND optimized for search.

For good search, first add tags to filenames. Try to tag consistently (consider using an application) but know that your tagset will evolve over time. Second, use good search tools. I recommend the combination of Find And Run Robot (very customizeable, lots of plugins) and Everything (blazing speed).

e) like in real life, throw away a lot of more stuff! Hoarding temptations can be strong on the computer too. Large files are especially useful prune as they take up space and slows down backups. For example, I kept old linux iso files from different versions of different distros, well over 30GB of data. I didn't use them, I just kept them. Then it struck me: they are forever archived online already, just clicks away. I deleted them and kept only a txt list of distros I've tried. It is 30kB in size.
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Finished Programs / Re: help convert short text manipulations code from perl to AHK
« Last post by Nod5 on May 16, 2010, 10:11 AM »
txt examples attached (based on source image from http://www.pgdp.net/...through/04_Proof.htm )

there's also a python version of the same text manipulation actions in the zip in this post http://www.diybooksc...p=3300%23p3300#p3302  (between the ##### in the code)
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: FFBookmarkUnpacker
« Last post by Nod5 on May 16, 2010, 03:41 AM »
ewemoa: yeah getting hits on folder keywords is possible with this. I was aiming especially for that because I use Firefox's internal bookmarks only to "bookmark all" on sets of open pages on some topic and put tags in the folder title.

For single bookmarks I use Tourl ( http://nod5.dcmembers.com/tourl.html ) to make a tagged .url in one whopping big folder. No need for sorting when FARR/Everything sorts things out  8)

edit: BTW, the Multicolumn Bookmarks add-on is useful for anyone with many bookmarks folders in Firefox: https://addons.mozil...firefox/addon/74381/
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARRFox plugin problem with Opera and Firefox Bookmarks
« Last post by Nod5 on May 15, 2010, 12:03 PM »
FARRFox works fine. FFBookmarkUnpacker is an alternative that unpacks the bookmarks. Then Everything and other search tools can find them in addition to FARR.
http://nod5.dcmember...ookmarkunpacker.html
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=22750
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Finished Programs / DONE: FFBookmarkUnpacker
« Last post by Nod5 on May 15, 2010, 12:00 PM »
FFBookmarkUnpacker

Unpacks Firefox bookmarks.html bookmarks as .url files and subfolders.

Download and more information available here
https://www.dcmember.../ffbookmarkunpacker/


Changelog:
180330
fix datestamp bug
fix encoding issue: now uses UTF-16 for ini read/write, UTF-8 for bookmarks.html read
faster unpack with less/better regex

180222
code cleanup
.url datestamp matches bookmark.html date strings

150904
bugfixes: nested subfolders, separator lines, bookmarks without subfolders

131117
fix special characters error
set profile in ini
cleans up old bookmarks before copying

120212
fix: special characters error
fix: profile issue bypassed by letting user set path manually

100515
first version
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Finished Programs / [Solved] help convert short text manipulations code from perl to AHK
« Last post by Nod5 on May 15, 2010, 11:26 AM »
Anyone good at both perl and AHK? If so, care to help translate the format.pl code in the zip here http://nod5.dcmember...com/tiffdjvuocr.html ? I'm not getting it right.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Plugin: AlbumDisplayer (BETA)
« Last post by Nod5 on May 15, 2010, 10:59 AM »
AlbumDisplayer  
v100515  by nod5 ( nod5.dcmembers.com )
http://nod5.dcmember...s/AlbumDisplayer.zip (md5  ff1dba199cceed79c851bb54e4ef86dd )

a plugin for FARR, Find and Run Robot
www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/

AlbumDisplayer indexes folder.jpg files in album folders
and display them as thumbnails for easy browsing/searching

made in AHK (www.autohotkey.com)
using FARR javascript SDK by ecaradec
using tooltip html/javascript code by dynamicdrive.com
option: use ramdisk as cache for much faster image display
(requires ramdisk and 7za.exe; 7zip command line)
http://downloads.sou.../sevenzip/7za465.zip

setup:
1. unzip files to a folder named AlbumDisplayer in the FARR plugins directory
2. enter paths in ini file
3. run AlbumDisplayerIndexer.exe to index
4. type "rplugins" in FARR
(optional: 5. get and unzip 7za.exe to AlbumDisplayer folder)

use:
Type "alb searchphrase". Example: "alb beatles yellow"
Type "alb *" to display first 100 albums (+50 on each bottom scroll)
album image actions:
click = send album to audioplayer
ctrl+click = open album folder

run AlbumDisplayerIndexer.exe to re-index

tip:
put AlbumDisplayerIndexer.exe link in Windows autorun to re-index on boot
put AlbumDisplayerIndexer_CacheToRamdisk.exe link in Windows autorun to unzip cache to ramdisk on boot (see ini file for details)

changelog:
100515:
- all settings now in ini
- various code trims/cleanups
- ramdisk cache option

080813:
- trims % in input to prevent FARR crash
- "alb *" now displays first 100 albums (+ 50 for each bottom scroll)
- ctrl+click opens album folder
- folders with ' in path works

http://nod5.dcmembers.com/albumdisplayerbeta.htm (ignore end part with old settings)
albumdisplayerbeta.jpg
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General Software Discussion / Re: RAMdisk on XP 32bit - brainstorming!
« Last post by Nod5 on May 15, 2010, 07:07 AM »
Here's an updated roundup of ramdisk software. Update based on searching/website reading, I haven't had time to try new versions. I use Gavotte but plan to switch. Ramdisks are amazingly useful! Some uses: scratchdisk for image/video editing, download location for torrents, unrar location for video files before viewing, temp disk when you're doing a lot of file manipulations/conversions, proxy location for image thumbnails, use it to run disk intensive games, ...

SuperSpeed -- http://www.superspeed.com/ramdisk.php
1. Ramdisk Plus 11.0.1 ($60)
2. RamDisk 11.0.1 ($40)

RamDisk Plus: "can use "unmanaged" Windows' memory e.g. above 4GB. It can also use the stubbornly inaccessable memory between 3.2GB and 4GB."
http://www.superspee...ad/trialversions.php
http://www.superspee...d/ramdisk-secure.php

- not free, expensive (only free trial)
+ actively developed
+ uses memory above 3.x GB in XP 32bit (only for Plus version!)
+ clear webpage, support, microsoft certified partner


DataRam RamDisk (formerly Cenatek) -- http://memory.datara...ces/software/ramdisk
v 3.5.130RC13a (released 2008/2009?)
free for <4GB disks, >4GB after free registration

+ free
+ (new) uses unused memory over 4GB in xp 32bit: "...allow you to enable a feature of RAMDisk that will allow you to use memory above the 4GB limit for 32-bit versions of Windows."
http://memory.datara...ser_Manual_35(1).pdf
(I have not tried it yet)

Gavotte Ramdisk -- https://bbs.et8.net/...wthread.php?t=906641
ramdisk5.7z (free) -- released 2008-11-17

+ free
- unclear developer, no official page
+ uses memory above 3.x GB in XP 32bit
http://translate.goo...atwiki.jp/gavotterd/
http://www.mydigital...000-and-2003-server/

Romex -- http://www.romexsoft...e.com/main/products/
1. VSuite Ramdisk Free
2. VSuite Ramdisk Standard ($30)
3. VSuite Ramdisk Professional ($50)
http://www.romexsoft...disk-comparison.html

"... provides solution for the well-known "4GB RAM in 32-bit Windows" issue, thereby allowing all of its installed RAM to be fully utilised."
http://www.romexsoft...e.com/main/products/

+ free (one version)
+ uses memory above 3.x GB in XP 32bit (as far as I can tell this goes for all three versions...)

--------------------------
Qsoft RAMDisk
RAMDisk Enterprise 5.3.2.12 ($ ??) -- 2010-05-10
http://members.fortu...MDisk/ramdiskent.htm
http://members.fortu...Download/brewing.htm

- not free
- can't use memory above 3.x GB in XP 32bit
- website problems: download not working, most of (fortunecity) homepage down, no contact info to author.
Really weird, given that the product seems to be continuously updated!

AR Soft -- http://www.arsoft-online.com/
AR RAM Disk (free) 1.20 -- released 2009-04-23

http://www.arsoft-on...;id=26&Itemid=47
"The AR RAM Disk is no longer supported by AR Soft. You may continue to use the RAM Disk, but we will not provide any help or additional information. Since the development of this product has been stopped there will no more versions of the software."

+ free
- end of life
- can't use unused memory over 4GB in xp 32bit

ImDisk -- http://www.ltr-data....opencode.html#ImDisk
1. ImDisk (freeware) 1.1.4 -- 2009-04-21

+ free
+ actively developed ; author active in forum
+ can also mount image files (e.g. DVD .iso )
- can't use memory above 3.x GB in XP 32bit (but maybe later)

http://www.ltr-data....opencode.html#ImDisk (official page)
http://www.boot-land...t=SF&s=&f=59 (official forum)
http://www.boot-land...x.php?showtopic=9637
(post from november 2009 where the dev says that support for memory above 3.x GB in XP 32bit is likely in the future)

FarStone -- http://www.farstone....virtualdrive-pro.php
VirtualDrive Pro 12($47)
- not free
- can't use memory above 3.x GB in XP 32bit (as far as I can tell...)


changelog:
100515 added Romex, reordered list, small updates
090511 added ImDisk, Farstone
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