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On Saturday 12 November 2005 17.11, Chris White wrote: |
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> On Saturday 12 November 2005 16:33, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > The wife has finally put her foot down and said I have to clean |
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> > up the mess that inhabits my office which occupies our second |
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> > bedroom. |
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> I probably would tell you the same thing sadly ;P |
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> > A wiki is one of the first things to come to mind. I'm |
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> > contemplating setting a wiki up on my trusty little |
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> > firewall/email/squid/dns.... server, scanning the clipping, |
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> > creating an entry in the wiki, placing, say, the first para of |
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> > the clipping in the wiki page, maybe via OCR software, and then |
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> > attaching the scanned image to the page. This way I can search |
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> > the wiki looking for stuff, the first paragraph of the article |
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> > will probably tell me if its the page I'm after and if so, look |
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> > at the scanned image for the full article. |
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> Yes, I'd recommend tikiwiki for that, as I know they have a file |
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> gallery, which pretty much does what you've suggested. I also |
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> noticed that tikiwiki is generally really easy to setup. |
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> > Does this sound like a suitable use for a wiki or am I wasting |
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> > my time and there are more "application specific" packages out |
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> > there that would suit my needs better? Anyone done anything like |
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> > this before? |
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> > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, |
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> > Andrew |
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> My 2 Cents |
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> Chris White |
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I'm regularly scanning most dead-tree info that comes my way, and |
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filing it away. I bought a cheap HP all in one gadget (d125xi ~200€) |
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that has a document feeder on top which works really well up to ~40 |
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pages per batch. Its operation is easily scriptable and together with |
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imagemagick you can do some nice post-processing. |
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However, I haven't found a good OCR program yet. That is the major |
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hurdle. Searchability is the really important thing. The space saving |
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and portability is nice enough though, for the moment. |
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I heard that Adobe has a windoze only software that can do this |
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reasonably well, but I haven't researched it further. |
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Jimmy |
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