[CODE4LIB] OCR Service at a Public Library?

[Lolis, John]

We're looking to digitize our microfilm collection, and I thought that we
might want to go a step further and offer an OCR service to our patrons.

Is there anyone out there who is making OCR available to the public?  And
if so, how are you going about that?  Is it simply through a standalone
scanner workstation?  Do you charge a fee?

In particular, I'm looking into ABBYY's Recognition Server (
https://www.abbyy.com/recognition-server/) for the initial digitization
project and going forward, for an OCR service.

Many thanks,

John Lolis
Coordinator of Computer Systems


100 Martine Avenue
White Plains, NY  10601

tel: 1.914.422.1497
fax: 1.914.422.1452

http://whiteplainslibrary.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] SomCom Technology DRM

[Lolis, John]

I don't know what version of Windows you're running, but make sure you try
to launch the executable
​or the command prompt window ​
as an administrator
​ (even if you're logged in as an admin).​
​ I imagine that anything that tries to have the system listen on port 103
would require elevated privileges with Windows 7 and up.​


I'd also check the event log to see if any clues can be gleaned from it (my
apologies if this was obvious to you).

If you have a system running an older version of Windows (as far back as
Windows 98 from what I saw in the system requirements), try that.

Good luck.  I'd be curious how you make out with it.



John Lolis
Coordinator of Computer Systems
White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Avenue
White Plains, NY  10601

tel: 1.914.422.1497
fax: 1.914.422.1452

http://whiteplainslibrary.org/


On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Will Martin  wrote:

> All,
>
> We've got a copy of this book of abstracts for presentations at a chemical
> engineering conference in 2005:
>
> http://odin-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/und:und_all:ODIN_ALEPH006134188
>
> It's got a CD-ROM included with the full papers for hundreds of them, and
> now we have a patron who wants to consult one of them.
>
> Unfortunately, we can't get the dang thing to work.  The files on the disc
> are encrypted.  There's a utility which is supposed to decrypt them, but it
> doesn't work.  When you run the program, it starts a web browser and takes
> to localhost:103.[1]  After that, it times out and reports that it's unable
> to connect.  Yes, I disabled the Windows firewall completely and tried it
> in multiple browsers.
>
> There are several little executable files on the CD, all of which appear
> to do the exact same thing -- open a failed connection to localhost:103.
>
> Executing them from the command line yielded no useful information, even
> using command-line switches like -h, --help, /?, and /h.  None of them had
> any help text, though a few produced badly written HTML output claiming
> they couldn't access things, or that they were corrupted.  I take that as
> an indication that my wild-ass guessing at their purposes and usage were
> wrong, rather than actual file corruption.
>
> I've sent an email to the company that made it (they're still around!) but
> thought I'd ask here also.  Any insights?
>
> Will Martin
>
> Web Services Librarian
> University of North Dakota
>
> [1] Firefox blocks port 103 by default.  To get by that you have to
> manually enable port 103 by putting
> user_pref("network.security.ports.banned.override", "103"); in your
> profile's user.js.
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automating Windows Updates on Deep Freeze computers

[Lolis, John]

This is one of those things that I've been meaning to tackle myself.  I
guess it's time.

I just did a search on your subject and found this:
http://support.faronics.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/297/8/how-are-windows-updates-handled-on-deep-freeze-protected-computers

With the latest version (v7.5), they added a nice feature that will
download updates to a frozen system and retain them for updating when the
system is thawed.


John Lolis
Coordinator of Computer Systems
White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Avenue
White Plains, NY  10601

tel: 1.914.422.1497
fax: 1.914.422.1452

http://whiteplainslibrary.org/

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Kyle Breneman tomeconque...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Does anybody out there have a process in place that allows for regular,
 automatic download and installation of Windows Updates on computers that
 are running Deep Freeze?  Currently we manually thaw the computers, then
 check for, download and install any updates, before manually freezing the
 computers again.  With only 2 PCs, its not a big deal, but it would be nice
 to know if there's a way to automate this process.

 Regards,
 Kyle