2009/8/27-9/9 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53304 Activity:nil | 8/26 Any suggestions on a good OCR program for either OS X or Windows that
will work on scanned documents outputted to pdf? Preferably free?
Thanks, scottyg
\_ Check Abbyy or Scansoft. Not free.
\_ Thanks...I think I'd prefer a free or opensource piece of
software unless there is a huge difference in quality. I
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2008/12/2-6 [Computer/SW/Apps, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:52140 Activity:kinda low | 12/1 Just curious -- what do you guys generally use soda for? Why do you
log on? Personally, I use it to keep a presence on IRC and AIM/gTalk
at all times, and mess around with some Python programming (been
setting up Twisted and such so I can play with making an irc bot).
--toulouse
\_ I use it to post SHIT, er, I mean, spill my guts about the company
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2006/5/8-11 [Computer/SW/Virus] UID:42977 Activity:nil | 5/8 apologies if this has been asked recently: friends are asking me
whats a good windows antivirus software and I've heard this
thing AVG is good -- and free. anyone use this? is it good? thx
\_ From the motd archive:
AVG used to be good when it was the only free program around.
Most people say that Avast! and AntiVir are better, though.
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2006/1/30-2/1 [Computer/HW/Scanner] UID:41599 Activity:low | 1/30 We have a lot of photos (4x6 and 5x7) that we'd like to scan and
turn them into jpeg files. We have misplaced the negatives for most
of them. What's the fastest way of doing this other than scanning
with a flat bed scanner one photo at a time? Are there scanners
that you can feed a stack of 4x6s or 5x7s and it'll scan them
automatically? Thanks.
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2005/11/28-30 [Consumer/CellPhone, Computer/HW/Scanner] UID:40737 Activity:low | 11/28 Does anyone here have any experience with reading bar codes from
cell phone displays? Can be any encoding mechanism (semacode, etc.)
I'm mainly interested in whether most cell phones allow reading with
conventional laser scanners or require some sort of weird optical
contrast <DEAD>scanner--mticket.net<DEAD> is an example of how this is done, but
I haven't been able to figure out the actual scanning tech. -John
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2005/9/6-7 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:39528 Activity:nil | 9/6 Has anyone worked with data archival software? Our microfilm scanner
still works but the printer has died (it's 30 years old). We're looking
at replacing microfilm with a digital system. I'm a luddite, so this
seems like a pretty bad idea to me, but I'm told to see what's out
there. So I guess I need a decent scanner and document feeder and
maybe some non-consumer software to create PDFs of what is scanned in.
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2005/6/29-30 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:38364 Activity:moderate | 6/29 Does anyone have a well-reasoned essay on why it's a bad idea to force
your users to change their passwords regularly? I have a strong
password and changing it frequently means I have to keep it on a
piece of paper or use dictionary words.
\_ I'm sure there's something obvious I'm missing here, but why can't\
computers just have either a rfid reader, a barcode scanner or a
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