OCR, Image/Text PDFs and the Mac
This week I’ve been staring at a collection of just over 29,000 PDFs. Image-only copies of thousands of documents created with “..the software that came with the scanner.” My task?… Read more »
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Javascript speed
I’ve long thought that if you wanted the fastest browser experience on a Mac, you went with the nightly Webkit build from http://nightly.webkit.org/. So I was surprised today when I… Read more »
Fix it till it breaks – into 64 bits
I like to fix things till they break. Today’s post is a cautionary tale for that admittedly small niche of sysadmins running OSX server on XServes upgraded in place from… Read more »
iPhone / iTouch / Android enabled
Got an iPhone 3GS the other day (clearly I’m behind the mobile curve but then I hate talking on the phone so it took me a while to “get it”)…. Read more »
MARS update (final)
Completed upgrading the new MARS (DSpace) server to from 10.5.8 to 10.6 (Snow Leopard Server). Went very smoothly. Here’s the sequence: run SuperDuper to clone boot drive to second drive… Read more »
MARS update
Finally have a tolerable JSP (java server pages) interface up and running. I’m no web designer but after firing up CSS Edit and reading (then re-reading) the 1.5.2 DSpace manual, … Read more »
Catching Up
Yes, those are in fact cobwebs hanging from the corners. It’s not that I’ve been too busy to write something, just distracted, I guess. Vacation…a few other short trips…couple of… Read more »
History MetaFinder
It’s not ‘feature complete’ but our new Mason Metafinder is up and running. The idea is to build small federated search engines for our various research portals. My testbed has… Read more »
Did they used to have pencil labs?
We’re in the process of planning a new library for George Mason University, adding if I remember correctly, roughly 150,000 square feet to our existing main library building. At present,… Read more »
Amplify API
Heard about the OpenAmplify API yesterday and using some PHP code from their site, fashioned a little test service to see the API in action. But first, what’s Amplify? Here’s… Read more »