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Jun/16

Document Organisation Part 3 – Optical Character Recognition

Filed Under Windows, Workflow at 6th June 2016 0:01 by

Overview I wanted the text in scans to be embedded in the PDF document which PDF does support. Other solutions I’ve seen have been to include a copy of the text in a separate text file with the same name … Continue reading →

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Sep/15

Document Organisation Part 1 – Physical To Virtual Documents

Filed Under Windows, Workflow at 14th September 2015 0:01 by
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Overview This is the first post of a series where I describe the electronic documentation management system I use. It’s a system that works fairly well for me and I hope it can pass on this information and even better … Continue reading →

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Mar/10

PDF Printer In Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 1st March 2010 0:01 by

It is really simple to add a PDF printer in Ubuntu 9.10. A PDF printer prints a page and writes to a file in PDF format. To install this feature typer in the terminal: sudo apt-get install cups-pdf That’s it. … Continue reading →

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Jul/09

My Alternative Free Software On Windows

Filed Under Software at 6th July 2009 0:01 by

Overview Here are my picks for free software on Windows (currently Windows 7). Free and open source (two different licenses applied to software) have come a long way and have come to replace my ageing proprietary and non-free applications. I … Continue reading →

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Oct/08

Microsoft Word Crashing Frequently

Filed Under Linux, Networking, Windows at 13th October 2008 2:39 by

I discovered a serious problem with Microsoft Word 2007 and potentially other Microsoft Office applications where if a networked printer is offline and is set as the default printer in Vista and XP would cause the following symptoms: Long opening … Continue reading →