Important StaffsLug announcement
by Jonothon Nihill
Hiya everyone!
On the 16th December a few members of the LUG had a meeting in keele
A great many things were talked about and most of it about linux which is
always good although there was talk of beer a few times and also someone
mentioned cake as I seem to recall.
On a serious note the future of the lug was discussed and it was agreed
that I would take over from adam in the day to day running of the lug as
lugmaster due to adam being very busy with other commitments. And that with
a small team including adam we would work on all aspects of restructuring
and improving the lug. I will be posting more in the upcoming days and
weeks as to what these plans are. We may be having a new website very soon
and there *may* be a little bit of downtime as a consequence but I ask you
to be patient with us.
If anyone has any questions or concerns feel free to address them to me
personally at the above e-mail address or twitter @optical_prime and I will
endeavour to answer them as quickly as I can.
I'm going to finish this email by asking everyone to thank adam for the
time he has dedicated to running the lug since he took over and that when
time allows he will be able to join us at any upcoming social and technical
meetings.
10 years, 4 months
OCR software for linux
by Jonothon Nihill
Does anyone have any recomendations for ocr type software for Linux It's
something I've never really had to do under linux before but I have a few
scanned documents in a .jpg format I could do with editing.
10 years, 4 months
OCR Script for PDF Pages
by Frank Mitchell
Hi: Using Debian, I found I had several OCR Packages. They're probably on DVD
#2 still. I tried them on a big PDF file with illustrations. "Tesseract" was
best, but the result would still need manual editing with a Spelling Checker.
"gocr" and "ocrad" were available too. Note that with all these you only get
the text. The illustrations were nowhere to be seen.
And looking again, I remembered I'd written a little bash script for OCR. The
reason for this is that you probably need to burst the PDF into separate pages
using "pdftk", then covert them into another format (using "convert") to get
the type of input file required by your OCR Package.
======================================
#!/bin/bash
for page in *.pdf
do
convert -density 300x300 $page ${page%pdf}pbm
ocrad -o ${page%pdf}txt ${page%pdf}pbm
rm ./*.pbm
done
======================================
My script got edited several times, ending up with the "ocrad" version as you
see, using PBM files as input. You need to run this within a directory full of
PDF pages, numbered with leading zeros so the processing runs in the correct
order. If you try to process a big PDF as one unit, you may get nowhere,
whereas with separate pages you can see how your OCR is progressing.
Yours truly: Frank Mitchell
On Friday 06 Dec 2013 14:25:26 Jonothon Nihill wrote:
> Does anyone have any recomendations for ocr type software for Linux It's
> something I've never really had to do under linux before but I have a few
> scanned documents in a .jpg format I could do with editing.
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10 years, 4 months
Staffslug website
by Jonothon Nihill
Hiya Folks,
I'd recently found the time to re-join and be an active member of staffslug
again some of you may not remember me but I used to go by the nick of
purpleoptic on the irc room.
Some of you may not like what I'm wirting in this email but I do it only
with the future of the lug in mind.
Today I visit the staffslug page to find that since Dave has stepped down
no one has posted much of anything to the website.
The links to the mailing list on there are out of date and it seems like
the content has gone missing too. I since posted to the site the url to the
mailing list. The wordpress software running the site really needs an
update and knowing the way people target anything wordpress it should
really be addressed I more than most people know how real life can get in
the way of things and sometimes things that arent esstential to everyday
life go by the road side.
However in an effort to restart things and breathe a bit of life back into
the lug I'm more than willing to put the effort into getting things off the
ground again be it helping to arrange meetings and generating new content
to add to the site but I'm afraid that I can't do it alone. With the
website desporately needing an update I feel that it is not secure. Most of
you will agree that wordpress sites are some of the most targetted sites on
the internet. so I will be looking for a temporary host for the site and if
anyone can help me out with it I'd be most thankful
Things might have moved more towards internet forums and social media but
I'm a firm beliver that if you have a problem it's sometimes eaiser to talk
face to face (at meetings etc) or knowing that not a million miles away
there is someone that will be willing to help you via email.
some of you may feel that I'm overstepping the mark here but I assure you
it's neither to take ownership of something or take anything away from
anyone. I am simply doing this for the lug and I welcome *any* help that
anyone wants to provide.
In closing lets work togeather and make 2014 a bright year for staffslug :D
~purpleoptic
10 years, 4 months
SSD recommendation
by felix swart
Hi all,
Could anyone advise on SSD's for a home PC.
I am looking at taking the plunge now and have narrowed it down the Samsung
840 Pro 128GB and the Intel 530 180GB for my budget. Both drives come with
a 5 year warranty, which is not a guarantee the drive will not fail, but
does indicate that the manufacturer is prepared to stand behind their
product longer than other 'consumer grade' drives.
Reading the reviews is a bit like trying to divine the winning numbers in
the lottery. StorageReview has tested the drives but for higher storage
capacities. I do not know enough about the construction of SSD's to
determine whether the performances of the Intel 240GB is identical to the
lower capacity 180GB drive. Same question applies to the Samsung, but with
an even greater difference in capacity: StorageReview tested a 512GB - I am
considering the 128GB model. Can anyone comment on this please?
Also any other thoughts welcome (for example - have the SandForce issues
been resolved?)
Many thanks,
Felix
10 years, 4 months