Monthly Archives: June 2007

Efficient scanning and storing of documents

I don't like having an administration in dead-tree format, but there are those who insist on sending you all kinds of things in this format. To make this data easier to access and back up, I scan it to a digital format. I used to do this manually, with the GIMP, but I decided it was time for some automation. Therefore I wrote a script, which scans whatever you put under the lid of the scanner in lineart mode, and stores it very efficiently in a DjVu DjVuBitonal document. And here it is: Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 years ago, on June 13, 2007, at 21:06 | No comments

Microsoft batch file meets bash shellscript

Luca City, who already shared a nice readline keyboard shortcut with me, wrote me again on May 14 to share another unrelated, but very interesting trick: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on June 11, 2007, at 20:06 | No comments