@MTImmonsMusic new song The Games Room
A couple of short walks with Christine.
We decided to go to Campsies when the Mountain forecast was for gales on the top. But it was too windy for us there, we got to the top of Dumgoyne and turned around.
Dumgoyne walkmap
Headed off to Cashel stopping for coffee by the Blane.
Cashel walkmap
A pleasant couple of walks.
Kilpatrick Braes 06-04-2019 walkmap
Zoom in. A world of wonder on an old fence post.
Oak and sycamore. The sycamore is starting to bud.
Blane Water.
Aaron Davis (Read Write Collect)The word of the month was Lego...
Aaron,
I love what you are doing with your Newsletter on several levels:
- A great set of personal and professional links gathered from an amazingly wide range.
- The way the links weave into your site.
- #IndieWeb
“#tds1374 F shaped reading gives us only speed https://t.co/Z9WgGLBu4w”
@livedtime the F shaped reading pattern was a fascinating read, I could identify the behaviours while I was reading it!
OCR again
I’ve found Office Lens useful over the last few year in class. It is a good way to get some text into a document for editing. The workflow for me is a wee bit clunky, snap on phone, open app, upload. Then either open in word or switch to desktop and open from OneDrive there when it syncs.
Today I found OCR.space a free online service. I gave it a quick try on my phone.
The first attempt failed, I had to edit the photo to B&W and brighten it a little (as per screenshots above), but the results were impressively quick. There was no swapping back and forward between apps.
I’ve tried a multi-column image too using the same image I used back in 2015 with office lens. The results are just as good and fit my preference for text I can copy as opposed to a document I need to open.
Here is the docx Office Lens converted, and here is the OCR.space one, from This image, I had to shrink it a bit to get under 5mb for ocr.space, I don’t think Id need to do that iif I was going straight from the phone when the image would be a smaller png.
I hope to give ocr.space a test in the real world next term.
I’ve also found dictation on my phone a great way to get documents into text. Reading someone elses words seems to work better for me that thinking up my own as I go.
I found ocr.space via OCR Shortcut : shortcuts on reddit, butI’ve not tried the shortcut, the webpages seems quick enough.
“Prepping a talk for #TCC24th Online Conference, revisiting one I did in 2004. Almost every web tool I cited then is dead, gone, except for the one people have said for years would be gone. This is the ephemeral web.”