Author Topic: DONE: Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable) (Read 42,884 times)

vevola · « **Reply #25 on:** July 21, 2011, 01:55 PM »

@skwire btw, are you going to post it on your software website?

skwire · « **Reply #26 on:** July 21, 2011, 01:56 PM »

No, I don't have plans to post this on my website as it's not really polished or, in some cases, all that accurate.

vevola · « **Reply #27 on:** July 21, 2011, 02:39 PM »

Would it be possible to choose where to save the final txt files? Even better, would it be possible to open Explorer with those files highlighted? tia!

ps
would it help make the app better if i sent you some examples of false negatives?

skwire · « **Reply #28 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:20 PM »

Quote from: vevola on July 21, 2011, 02:39 PM

Would it be possible to choose where to save the final txt files? Even better, would it be possible to open Explorer with those files highlighted? tia!

Sure, it's possible.

Quote from: vevola on July 21, 2011, 02:39 PM

would it help make the app better if i sent you some examples of false negatives?

No, because a false positive still contains text. What I mean is...where does one draw the line as to what constitutes good text versus bad text? You can get into all sorts of algorithms that attempt to do this but I think it's overkill for this utility.

vevola · « **Reply #29 on:** July 21, 2011, 10:38 PM »

You say it's not a polished app, I say it does what I asked for!

It would be nice to choose where to save the final results for example, and maybe even keep a record of which files have already been scanned (maybe by having the app look only at files after the soonest modified file from the previous scan - dunno if that makes sense) and just update the results file. Having the possibility to exclude somehow those false-positives from the scan I think would be nice too.

But like I said, it's usable this way, at least for me and Suntsu!

If you ever come to Germany, look me up!

IainB · « **Reply #30 on:** July 22, 2011, 04:30 PM »

@vevola: You might be interested in this.
I see you use Foxit and the "reference management" programme Mendeley Desktop.
I have recently started using another reference management programme called Qiqqa, having tried Zotero and Mendelay - I found the latter two did not meet my requirements.

I was blown away by Qiqqa though - it scans and indexes text-searchable PDF files and PDF files containing images - i.e., it OCRs any text in the images in the PDF files. I let Qiqqa loose on my library of about 650 PDF documents, and left it scanning and indexing the lot overnight.
It successfully OCRed and indexed all the imaged PDF files too. It seems quite intuitive to use and has lots of good features.

There's a good list and comparison of "reference management software" here: Comparison of reference management software

On the Qiqqa website, there is a good comparison between Qiqqa, EndNote, Zotero, and Mendelay, : Qiqqa Features
The OCR capability stands out as a strength for Qiqqa.

vevola · « **Reply #31 on:** July 23, 2011, 06:16 PM »

Quote from: IainB on July 22, 2011, 04:30 PM

@vevola: You might be interested in this.
I see you use Foxit and the "reference management" programme Mendeley Desktop.
I have recently started using another reference management programme called Qiqqa, having tried Zotero and Mendelay - I found the latter two did not meet my requirements.

Thanks! I'll try it out!

skwire · « **Reply #32 on:** July 23, 2011, 06:47 PM »

Nice find, IainB. Thanks for sharing.

vevola · « **Reply #33 on:** July 23, 2011, 08:27 PM »

@IainB
Yikes! I've been playing around with Qiqqa, but there seems to be a lot of glitches! It's uploading papers even when I asked not to, there's no way to stop any type of operation, and well... I think I'm sticking to Mendeley and skwire's app!

BTW, @skwire I donated some $$ to you. It's not a lot, just a symbolic gesture. I encourage others to donate to coders as well! Thanks!

skwire · « **Reply #34 on:** July 24, 2011, 12:05 AM »

Quote from: vevola on July 23, 2011, 08:27 PM

BTW, @skwire I donated some $$ to you. It's not a lot, just a symbolic gesture. I encourage others to donate to coders as well! Thanks!

Thank you very much, I appreciate it.

dcsev · « **Reply #35 on:** September 07, 2011, 08:13 AM »

Holy shit. I was just looking for this app.
skwire strikes again

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