[ubuntu-uk] Broadband usage meter

2010-12-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Any recommendations for a Broadband Usage meter? (I'm on BT and capped at 10GB per month...) Cheers -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

2010-12-06 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there I rarely need OCR, but one of my slight disappointments is the lack of a really accurate OCR engine for Linux. I've tried all the ones that exist (that I've found so far), and apart from being a bit awkward to operate, no matter how much I vary the scan settings, I always end up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

2010-12-06 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 6 December 2010 15:39, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Hi there I rarely need OCR, but one of my slight disappointments is the lack of a really accurate OCR engine for Linux. I've tried all the ones that exist (that I've found so far), and apart from being a bit awkward to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

2010-12-06 Thread danteash...@gmail.com
On 6 December 2010 15:39, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Hi there I rarely need OCR, but one of my slight disappointments is the lack of a really accurate OCR engine for Linux. I've tried all the ones that exist (that I've found so far), and apart from being a bit awkward to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

2010-12-06 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 16:07 +, Simon Greenwood wrote: I had a need to do some OCR recently and came across a project called tesseract-ocr: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/. It's based on HP code that dates from the mid-90s. I've only used it to extract text from existing graphics

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

2010-12-06 Thread danteash...@gmail.com
On 6 December 2010 16:55, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 16:07 +, Simon Greenwood wrote: I had a need to do some OCR recently and came across a project called tesseract-ocr: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/. It's based on HP code that dates from

[ubuntu-uk] GnackTrack

2010-12-06 Thread Byte Soup
An ubuntu based distro with quite a few extra tools for penetration testing http://www.gnacktrack.co.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

2010-12-06 Thread Bruno Girin
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 16:55 +, Barry Drake wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 16:07 +, Simon Greenwood wrote: I had a need to do some OCR recently and came across a project called tesseract-ocr: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/. It's based on HP code that dates from the mid-90s.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How do I turn off viewing all windows zoomed out?

2010-12-06 Thread Byte Soup
On 3 December 2010 14:38, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: ian pettitt (RRes-BB) wrote: That sounds like the scale plugin in Compiz. One way of changing the settings and the shortcut/mouse corner activation is to use the Compiz manager. Thanks, that was it. I disabled Scale

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

2010-12-06 Thread danteash...@gmail.com
On 6 December 2010 20:18, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 16:55 +, Barry Drake wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 16:07 +, Simon Greenwood wrote: I had a need to do some OCR recently and came across a project called tesseract-ocr:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

2010-12-06 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 20:18 +, Bruno Girin wrote: OCRFeeder is another option: it is in the Ubuntu repo, uses Tesseract as a default back-end and can be installed from the software centre. I haven't used it extensively so I have no idea how it compares to gscan2pdf. Hmm ... at first look,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Want to create an advert for Ubuntu?

2010-12-06 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: I have no idea what FruitLoops is. AutoCAD I can believe would be difficult, but then, the only way to open an AutoCAD file is to have a copy of AutoCAD, isn't it? IOW, 99.99% of Windows PCs can't open AutoCAD files

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Want to create an advert for Ubuntu?

2010-12-06 Thread Avi Greenbury
Liam Proven wrote: I am aware of a number of worms and a handful - a tiny handful - of virus-like programs that have been demonstrated under lab conditions. Out in the wild? I'm not aware of a single instance of a live Linux virus propagating in the wild. If you are, do please share your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Want to create an advert for Ubuntu?

2010-12-06 Thread Joe Metcalfe
[1] As for reading and writing all MS files and anything from any Win or OSX program, for obvious complete incompatibility AutoCAD and FruitLoops come to mind. OOo/MSOffice compatibility is still nowhere near good enough for one to just replace the other. I have no idea what FruitLoops is.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broadband usage meter

2010-12-06 Thread Avi Greenbury
On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:46:57 + Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Any recommendations for a Broadband Usage meter? (I'm on BT and capped at 10GB per month...) Cheers Having briefly looked into this, I couldn't find any sensible way of extracting that information out of the