Re: A reliable ocr program for Fedora

On 12/15/2015 11:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:36:40PM +1030, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 December 2015, jd1008 sent: Downloaded and tried tesseract and cuneiform, and both fail to work on

Re: A reliable ocr program for Fedora

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:36:40PM +1030, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 15 December 2015, jd1008 sent: > > Downloaded and tried tesseract and cuneiform, and both fail to > > work on any of the pdf images I have. These images are NOT encrypted > > as they are public documents like from the DMV

Re: using an OS tree to do remote install fails

On 12/15/2015 06:13 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 02:22 PM, dwoody5654 wrote: On 12/15/2015 04:20 PM, cs wrote: On 12/15/2015 03:20 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 01:09 PM, dwoody5654 wrote: I have been using the following with no problems: url --url http://mirrors.kernel.org/f

Re: USB curosity

> On 12/14/15 03:22, Ger van Dijck wrote: ... snip ... > Cables can be a problem. ... snip ... Here's my USB cable story: My sister-in-law's USB disk drive stopped working for her. I tried it on my Linux laptop, and it worked just fine. I took it to work and tried it on three different Windows

Re: Installing F22: MUST format root?!?!?!

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 12/15/2015 04:01 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> I bought a 32gb class 10 sd card to run Fedora on a laptop where I don't >> want to touch the hard drive. >> >> After a bit of reading it seems it's a good idea to make sure the >> partition an

Re: USB curosity

Allegedly, on or about 15 December 2015, Fred Smith sent: > there is definitely a limit on USB cable length, and for some > devices its very strict. I have a Canon LIDE 210 USB scanner here. > I had originally put together cables long enough to reach from the > shelf by my desk to the computer, an

Re: USB curosity

Allegedly, on or about 15 December 2015, Kevin Cummings sent: > We finally got the thicknet repeater manufacturer together with the > X-terminal manufacturer together. Each blamed the other. Turns out > both were at fault. While the specification allows a 10% signal > variance, both implemented

Re: A reliable ocr program for Fedora

Allegedly, on or about 15 December 2015, jd1008 sent: > Downloaded and tried tesseract and cuneiform, and both fail to > work on any of the pdf images I have. These images are NOT encrypted > as they are public documents like from the DMV, ... etc. But are they good quality images? OCR needs a r

Re: A reliable ocr program for Fedora

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:44:01PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 01:45:20PM -0700, jd1008 wrote: > > Downloaded and tried tesseract and cuneiform, and both fail to > > work on any of the pdf images I have. These images are NOT encrypted > > as they are public documents like fro

Re: USB curosity

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 05:30:10PM -0500, Kevin Cummings wrote: > On 12/14/15 03:22, Ger van Dijck wrote: > > Op Mon, 14 Dec 2015 04:23:47 +0100 schreef Geoffrey Leach > > : > > > >> I have a LaserJet 1300 printer that connects via a Belkin parallel > >> port-to-USB connector. When I send a docume

Re: A reliable ocr program for Fedora

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 01:45:20PM -0700, jd1008 wrote: > Downloaded and tried tesseract and cuneiform, and both fail to > work on any of the pdf images I have. These images are NOT encrypted > as they are public documents like from the DMV, ... etc. Last time I used tesseract (4 or 5 years, perha

Re: Installing F22: MUST format root?!?!?!

its asking you to mkfs on the root fs,... hth,... On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > I bought a 32gb class 10 sd card to run Fedora on a laptop where I don't > want to touch the hard drive. > > After a bit of reading it seems it's a good idea to make sure the > partition and

Re: USB curosity

On 12/15/2015 12:04:48 AM, Berend De Schouwer wrote: > On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 11:38 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > On 12/13/2015 09:56:40 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > >  > > > > > > Have you examined /var/log/cups/error_log ? > > > > That file does not exist. This despite printing the test page > >

Re: Installing F22: MUST format root?!?!?!

On 12/15/2015 04:01 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: I bought a 32gb class 10 sd card to run Fedora on a laptop where I don't want to touch the hard drive. After a bit of reading it seems it's a good idea to make sure the partition and filesystem are setup to get the most out of it (mainly around block s

Re: USB curosity

On 12/14/2015 11:58:53 PM, Berend De Schouwer wrote: > On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 11:46 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > On 12/13/2015 10:40:10 PM, Berend De Schouwer wrote: > > >  > > > Will "echo -en 'hello world\n\f' > /dev/usb/lp0" print?  This > > > should > > > print the text, with a form feed.  I

Re: using an OS tree to do remote install fails

On 12/15/2015 02:22 PM, dwoody5654 wrote: On 12/15/2015 04:20 PM, cs wrote: On 12/15/2015 03:20 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 01:09 PM, dwoody5654 wrote: I have been using the following with no problems: url --url http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/22/Everything/i386/os/ Howeve

Re: Installing F22: MUST format root?!?!?!

On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:01:08 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: > WTF?!? So what if I want to format the partition with specific options? You could do what I do: I never have installed on real hardware using the new anaconda re-write. Instead I run the live CD in a virtual machine, install to the virtual

Installing F22: MUST format root?!?!?!

I bought a 32gb class 10 sd card to run Fedora on a laptop where I don't want to touch the hard drive. After a bit of reading it seems it's a good idea to make sure the partition and filesystem are setup to get the most out of it (mainly around block side and erase boundaries) So I booted to Fedo

Re: dnf errors on update

On 12/15/2015 03:24 PM, Greg Woods wrote: I was getting the same thing, but it appears to be working now. --Greg On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Robert Arkiletian > wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Frank McCormick mailto:bea...@videotron.ca>> wrote:

Re: USB curosity

On 12/14/15 03:22, Ger van Dijck wrote: > Op Mon, 14 Dec 2015 04:23:47 +0100 schreef Geoffrey Leach > : > >> I have a LaserJet 1300 printer that connects via a Belkin parallel >> port-to-USB connector. When I send a document to the printer, half the >> time it prints without hesitation; other time

Re: using an OS tree to do remote install fails

On 12/15/2015 04:20 PM, cs wrote: On 12/15/2015 03:20 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 01:09 PM, dwoody5654 wrote: I have been using the following with no problems: url --url http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/22/Everything/i386/os/ However, One computer I need to upgrade is in a

Re: using an OS tree to do remote install fails

On 12/15/2015 03:31 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/15/2015 01:09 PM, dwoody5654 wrote: Is there documentation elsewhere that has more details on the use of an OS tree? Are you specifying --dir relative to /home, or did you include "/home" in the path? I tried using /home as part of the path

Re: A reliable ocr program for Fedora

On 12/15/2015 02:00 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: If you have pdf files with actual characters, the pdftotext tool works well for extracting the text (though not necessarily the layout). As far as doing OCR from actual image files, I always found tesseract to work better than most (but it was still p

Re: A reliable ocr program for Fedora

On 12/15/2015 12:45 PM, jd1008 wrote: Does anyone know of a free OCR program for linux, that WORX My wife used a tesseract-ocr frontend (gimagereader, on Windows) successfully. There are a list of others: https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/3rdParty -- users mailing list users@list

Re: using an OS tree to do remote install fails

On 12/15/2015 01:09 PM, dwoody5654 wrote: Is there documentation elsewhere that has more details on the use of an OS tree? Are you specifying --dir relative to /home, or did you include "/home" in the path? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscript

Re: using an OS tree to do remote install fails

On 12/15/2015 01:09 PM, dwoody5654 wrote: I have been using the following with no problems: url --url http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/22/Everything/i386/os/ However, One computer I need to upgrade is in another city and in an area that has power outages on occasion but It has battery b

Re: A reliable ocr program for Fedora

On 12/15/2015 03:00 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: If you have pdf files with actual characters, the pdftotext tool works well for extracting the text (though not necessarily the layout). there is an option: -layout It does a good job with preserving the layout. David As far as doing OCR from actual im

using an OS tree to do remote install fails

I have been using the following with no problems: url --url http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/22/Everything/i386/os/ However, One computer I need to upgrade is in another city and in an area that has power outages on occasion but It has battery backup. During a netinstall, if the power

Re: A reliable ocr program for Fedora

If you have pdf files with actual characters, the pdftotext tool works well for extracting the text (though not necessarily the layout). As far as doing OCR from actual image files, I always found tesseract to work better than most (but it was still pretty feeble). -- users mailing list users@lis

A reliable ocr program for Fedora

Downloaded and tried tesseract and cuneiform, and both fail to work on any of the pdf images I have. These images are NOT encrypted as they are public documents like from the DMV, ... etc. Does anyone know of a free OCR program for linux, that WORX :) ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: dnf errors on update

I was getting the same thing, but it appears to be working now. --Greg On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Frank McCormick > wrote: > >> On 12/15/2015 01:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>> On 12/15/2015 10:10 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:

Re: some errors on boot

On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:17:06 -0800 Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/15/2015 10:42 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 12/15/2015 09:31 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> > >> You cannot use fedup to an end-of-life version of the system. > >> Fedora 20 and 21 are both at end-of-life. > > > > Wherever did you ge

Re: dnf errors on update

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 12/15/2015 01:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> On 12/15/2015 10:10 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: >> >>> On 12/15/2015 01:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> On 12/15/2015 09:51 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: > Having trouble trying to

Re: some errors on boot

On 12/15/2015 10:42 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/15/2015 09:31 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: You cannot use fedup to an end-of-life version of the system. Fedora 20 and 21 are both at end-of-life. Wherever did you get that wrong idea? The upgrade will work as long as the repos are still there. Ye

[389-users] Re: 389 Windows Console

On 12/15/2015 09:51 AM, Phil Daws wrote: Hello, I have 389 up and running in my lab, with encryption enabled, but when I connect too the Administration panel and double click on the Directory Server it just hangs. The CA certificate has been imported using: d:\Scratch\firefox_add-certs\bin>c

Re: dnf errors on update

On 12/15/2015 01:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 10:10 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 12/15/2015 01:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 09:51 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Having trouble trying to update Fedora 22 this morning. [root@localhost frankzen] # dnf update Failed to synch

Re: VNC and sound

On 10/30/2015 06:01 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 10/30/2015 04:25 PM, Chris Kottaridis wrote: I don't seem to get sound. It doesn't seem to come out on my VNC client or on the VNC server's sound card. My remote machine is close enough that I could run a wire from it's sound card to the speakers

Re: dnf errors on update

On 12/15/2015 10:10 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 12/15/2015 01:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 09:51 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Having trouble trying to update Fedora 22 this morning. [root@localhost frankzen] # dnf update Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-upda

Re: dnf errors on update

On 12/15/2015 09:51 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Having trouble trying to update Fedora 22 this morning. [root@localhost frankzen] # dnf update Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing' from 'http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-testin

Re: some errors on boot

On 12/15/2015 09:31 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: You cannot use fedup to an end-of-life version of the system. Fedora 20 and 21 are both at end-of-life. Wherever did you get that wrong idea? The upgrade will work as long as the repos are still there. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: dnf errors on update

On 12/15/2015 01:00 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/15/2015 09:51 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Having trouble trying to update Fedora 22 this morning. [root@localhost frankzen] # dnf update Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing' from 'http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/

dnf errors on update

Having trouble trying to update Fedora 22 this morning. [root@localhost frankzen] # dnf update Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing' from 'http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-testing-22&arch=i386': Cannot prepare internal mirr

Re: some errors on boot

On 12/15/2015 06:36 AM, Frank White wrote: 2015-12-15 13:56 GMT+00:00 Michael Schwendt : On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:21:26 +, Frank White wrote: Hi, I have not resolved my problem... I have seen an automatic reboot after the relabeling job. And I have a freeze during reinstall of polkit package

Re: some errors on boot

2015-12-15 13:56 GMT+00:00 Michael Schwendt : > On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:21:26 +, Frank White wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have not resolved my problem... I have seen an automatic reboot >> after the relabeling job. And I have a freeze during reinstall of >> polkit packages.. and some others packages...

Re: some errors on boot

On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:21:26 +, Frank White wrote: > Hi, > I have not resolved my problem... I have seen an automatic reboot > after the relabeling job. And I have a freeze during reinstall of > polkit packages.. and some others packages... > anyway this is my boot log: > http://pastebin.com/4

Re: some errors on boot

Hi, I have not resolved my problem... I have seen an automatic reboot after the relabeling job. And I have a freeze during reinstall of polkit packages.. and some others packages... anyway this is my boot log: http://pastebin.com/4G77jkcB Thank you very much.. 2015-12-14 13:53 GMT+00:00 Michael

Re: USB curosity

On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 11:38 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 12/13/2015 09:56:40 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >  > > > > Have you examined /var/log/cups/error_log ? > > That file does not exist. This despite printing the test page > displayed "Unable to send data to printer" after a few minutes. CUPS