Category Archives: Basic Tools
Portable OCR tools to extract text from scanned pages
In addition to previously mentioned gImageReader, these 2 other portable OCR tools worked well in the following scenarios: For adding text overlay into a scanned PDF file (book/document): PDF-XChange Viewer Portable with OCR function For capturing text on the computer … Continue reading
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Sandboxie, for improved protection of your internet browsing sessions
Antivirus and firewall on your home computer are not protecting you from all malware. Depending on your browsing habits, and which kind of downloads you are doing, and from where, you also would benefit from VPN, network firewall and sandboxing. … Continue reading
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CherryTree, Tool for your project or other notes
CherryTree is great open source tool for your notes. It has great features like: tree structure RTF editing and also can paste text without formattting can store content in one file can encrypt you notes file can export to different … Continue reading
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Greenshot, Advanced tool for screenshots
Greenshot is great open source tool for taking full screen or region screenshots. It can automatically save the screenshot into a file and copy into a clipboard. These settings are shown in the picture below. PS: I will mark ScreenGrab … Continue reading
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Free vector graphics and icons by freepik
Freepik has made several vector graphics and icons available. Worth to take a look. Their icons are available also at flaticon. In this blog, I try to make a short story by using freepik icons. Please note that, icons are … Continue reading
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“Tiger in the cage” examples, bow-tie analysis as part of risk assessment
Bowtie analysis might be an helpfull tool for risk assessment. I used yEd to create my own bowtie (see the source at the end). Bow tie analysis in the ISO 31010. Bow tie analysis is a simple diagrammatic way of … Continue reading
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gImageReader, OCR tool for capturing text from scanned images
gImageReader can recognize text from scanned documents or books. The OCR (Optical character recognition) used is based on tesseract-ocr engine. It is free and open source. There also exist a portable version for PortableApps. Wikipedia: Optical character recognition (OCR) is … Continue reading
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