Tesseract-ocr was an OCR Engine that was developed at HP Labs between 1985 and 1995... and is now at Google.

The Wine development release 1.3.22 is now available. Whats new in this release. Support for Indic text shaping. Generation of stubless code in the IDL compiler. Support for X files in D3DX. 4 and 24 bit bitmap formats in the DIB engine. Listview performance improvements. Various bug fixes.

A few months ago I wanted to keep track of changes on a webpage... and wrote a script to do so. Later I discovered there were navigator plugins that did exactly that... But the fun in writing your own script is far greater than an anonymous script someone did.

The Wine development release 1.3.23 is now available. What's new in this release. Support for stubless COM proxies on x86-64. Builtin dxdiag now outputs real information. Monochrome bitmap format in the DIB engine. Beginnings of a true shell Explorer builtin. A number of new D3DX9 functions. More support for Indic text shaping. Various bug fixes.

Using the same ALSA upgrade script as for 1.0.20, but with some minor tweaks, you can upgrade to ALSA 1.0.21 by running a simple sh file.

For instructions on how to run the script and other MUST READ info, please check our ALSA 1.0.20 upgade script post.

Once you do that, you can download the ALSA 1.0.21 upgrade script....[...]

How to use Tesseract in Ubuntu. Scan a text image, and then convert that to a text document!

A new version of "What to do after installing Ubuntu? Run this script!" has been released. The script now has an actual name: "Ubuntu 10.04 Start".

The main purpose of this script is to speed up configuring Ubuntu 10.04 immediately after you've just installed it. This includes both installing popular applications and codecs as well as fixing some annoyances in Ubuntu 10.04.

If you liked the script in our "What To Do After Installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx? Run This Script!" post, you'll be glad to know that version 0.2 is out. What's new in "Ubuntu 10.04 First time use script"...

I like to back up the data on my laptop computer as often as possible, just in case I have trouble with it. I have some large files on the laptop that prevent me from scheduling an Internet backup to my home machine, so I have written a script that reminds me to periodically plug in an external USB drive; then upon clicking continue, the reminder script runs my custom backup script.