Questions regarding conversion between various file formats.
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Abbyy fine reader like application for Ubuntu 13.04
I have a lot of images and what I want to do is to scan those images and get output in ms word file that can be edited later. For Windows, I have Abbyy fine reader. But I don't want to go back to ...
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Converting PDF doc to image as preserving the PDF quality at image?
I have looked to the site and find convert like programs and used them however I cannot preserve the quality of the PDF file. I have changes the options for better resolutions but this time the size ...
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How can I quickly convert a GIF file to a video?
I have a small animation formatted as a GIF image file which I would like to convert to a video. Is that possible?
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Can't convert `.bin` file into `.iso` format with the command `bchunk`
I have .bin & .cue movie file ready for burning, and I'm trying to convert it into the .iso file format using bchunk.
My problem is that it gives me .ugh file format instead of .iso as a result ...
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How to fast convert mp4 to webm using ffmpeg?
Sorry to disturb you but I'm in a kind of a trouble.
I have to convert 76 mp4 files to webm for the purpose of a website that uses HTML5 videos. I'm talking about 10 Gb of mp4 files...
I know I can ...
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Any application with graphical user interface to convert video files from mp4 to avi?
I m using ubuntu and I have some mp4 video files and I want to convert them to avi video file and I m looking for an application to do it. I want an application with graphical user interface.
Any ...
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How to produce a MSWord like document on Ubuntu 11.10? [duplicate]
I made a very important document using Puppy 5.1 with AbiWord. Next I was to copy it on another PC using Ubuntu 11.10. I opened it easily & worked on it with LibreOffice Writer. My document is ...
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Converting from mp4 to Xvid avi using avconv?
I normally use avidemux to convert mp4s to Xvid AVI for my Philips Streamium SLM5500. Normally I select MPEG-4 ASP (Xvid) at Two Pass with an average bitrate f 1500kb/s for video and AC3 (lav) audio ...
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How to batch convert legacy files to UTF8?
I think the ideal solution for me is a Nautilus Script that performs encoding conversion on selected files.
The following script reads the encoding of a selected file and performs utf8 conversion if ...
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How to convert pdf file to an odt file?
I want to convert a .pdf file to an .odt file so that I can further convert it to a .doc file. Is there any software/script that can do this. I have tried to copy the content of the .pdf file and ...
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Video Conversion using libav with libopus
i need to convert my video files with VP8 / Opus in Matroska(mkv) container using avconv in terminal
Can anyone give example usage of it?
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On-the-fly conversion of FLAC to MP3 when syncing with Android?
I have a large collection of FLAC music files which I would like to sync to my Android phone. However, the FLAC files are very large...and before I bother to create a seperate MP3 music library it ...
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I need someone to talk me through how to “hdiutil convert” (ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso) to an .img file
I need to create a bootable drive from the aforementioned file. I have an external drive which I am planning to use; I was also curious about whether I only need the drive as a means of booting, or to ...
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Re-encode video files
I have lots of video files and am running out of storage space fast. Without affecting the quality too much, what is an easy quick way to re-encode these files to smaller files?
The original files ...
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LibreOffice Command Line Conversion - No Output File?
I am using LibreOffice installed on my Linux box and I seem to be having a weird problem in that the conversion seems to be taking place, and there seem to be no errors, but there is no output file in ...
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How can I convert a .png file to .icns
What is the correct way of converting one or more .png files to .icns files?.
I've installed icnsutils but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to work with png2icns.
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Is this tactic of switching from btrfs to ext4 safe?
I've been using btrfs on Ubuntu 12.10 for both / and /home for several weeks. Through out the time I've come to the conclusion that ext4 performs better on my system and I'd like to switch back ...
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How to convert a sound file to Opus
For testing, I want to convert an MP3 and WAV file I have to Opus, what are the steps to doing this?
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How to convert .tar.gz etc to .deb format using ubucompilator/checkinstall? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Compiling source into a DEB package
I have some tarballs I want to convert into Debian packages. I usually use gdebi to install .debs but tarballs are difficult for me ...
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How to convert RPM package to a format meaningful to Ubuntu
I'm using a special program that has only .rpm version available as installer. As I need to run it on Ubuntu, Is there a way to install it in Ubuntu?
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Is there a quick way to convert camera raw files to DNG?
Before I switched from Windows to Ubuntu for my daily computing, I used Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom for processing photos from my DSLR. Adobe made it really straightforward to batch convert from ...
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Trying to convert ppt to pdf using libreoffice ---headless -convert- topdf with php script
When used below command on the command line it working file
libreoffice --headless -convert-to pdf ".$sourse." -outdir outputolder/
but, if use in php script nothing happen. Can anybody provide ...
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How do I convert an MP4 to an MP3?
I have some songs which are in mp4 format and I want to convert them into mp3 format.
I am new to Ubuntu/Linux. So please explain the step by step process or give any software which can do the above ...
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Error converting thousands of documents with LibreOffice
I am trying to convert several thousand documents from LWP (Lotus Word Pro) to DOC. When the converting process gets to around 250 (To 229 in some cases, 248 in others, 245, etc.. It gets near 250) ...
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ffmpeg/avconv - the -psp option no longer works on Sony Walkman
Since the changeover from ffmpeg to avconv, the -psp option does not seem to render video correctly for Sony Walkman - "file format not supported", it was perfect before.
ffmpeg -i video.avi -f psp ...
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Need to downsample video to a lower resolution
I would like to convert a Mp4 file in HD into a Mp4 file of lower resolution. Is there any software that can be used for this?
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How to use the PST mail format in Ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Import PST in Evolution 3.2.1
I am using the Outlook mailbox. In that all mails are in PST format, but now I've installed Ubuntu OS. How can I use the old PST mails in ...
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Reformating xml document [closed]
I have an xml document in the format below:
<key>value</key>
<key>value</key>
<key>value</key>
But need to convert it to the following:
<tag k='key' ...
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How to convert unconvertable & unviewable .ts files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I convert .ts files into something useful?
How to convert .ts files that can not be converted with usual WinFF, Avidemux etc programs?
The .ts files in question ...
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Software to convert MP3 to MIDI and MP3 to KAROKE
I am looking for software that can convert MP3 files to MIDI and KAROKE formats.
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Why does Kmail make JPG files larger when I forward them?
When I forward emails with JPEG attachments inline, the JPEG files size enlarge. Is this normal? Can I turn it off?
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WMF files no longer recognised; cannot work with them in GIMP
Back in 8.04 and 10.04, GIMP could easily open WMF files, letting me work on them.
In 11.04, there was a regression (still not fixed!), and this would not work.
But at least there was a workaround. ...
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Convert via terminal CRW format to JPG or PNG
How can I convert CRW format images to JPG or PNG via terminal. tried convert and mogrify with no luck. It gave a weird corrupted error while processing the CRW files but I can view them fine using ...
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Normalising volume on sound files
I have a bunch of mp3s that are awfully quiet. Even on max volume on my player, they're hardly intelligible.
On the other hand, I have a few mp3's with perfect volume all over, could be used as a ...
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Can I convert a 2D video to 3D?
Is it possible to convert a 2D video to 3D on Linux?
There are several ways on Windows, one is using an AviSynth script.
I tried opening the script with avconv.exe and VirtualDub with Wine and ...
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How to convert ALAC to FLAC?
I have some ALAC files (.m4a) that I want to convert to FLAC (.flac). How can I do this?
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video gets corrupt after converting ogv to any format using ffmpeg
I was trying to convert ogv video to avi using ffmpeg. It does convert without any error but the output video seems to be corrupt. Does not matter which format I convert it to, out put is same as ...
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How to convert .lit files in other formats?
I've changed my e-reader and i want to convert my .lit files in other supported formats (AZW, TXT, PDF, HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG or BMP)
thanks
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How to open word 5.0 files?
I tried Libreoffice but failed.
I used the file command, but it only recognizes the file as "data".
Is there a way to open a very old format like a Word 5.0 file?
After I use catdoc,it shows ...
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How can I convert .epub files to plain text?
I'm able to view an epub file in, say, okular, select all the text and copy-paste into a text editor. I'd like a command line method - anyone know of such a thing?
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Batch convert ai files to pdf / png etc
Does anybody know of software that can batch convert .ai into another format? Preferably png or pdf?
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Convert PDF to image
I'm trying to convert a PDF file (it's a book) into an image.
When I using convert like this
convert book.pdf book.jpg
or like this
convert book.pdf book.png
then I get this warning
Warning: ...
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Editing of a saved LibreOffice writer document in MS WordPad
I am new to Libre Office. I have a problem with the format in which to save a office document (when comparing to Microsoft office)
I have set up my Libre office writer doc (call it a master ...
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Insert subtitles permanently and convert video
I need to do two things with an .avi video:
Insert subtitles (.srt) permanently without modifying its timing or the video intself.
Convert the new video (with the permanent subtitles) from .avi to ...
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How to convert ogg to aac music format?
I want to convert a ogg file to aac. But I need to transfer all the data of the ogg file (i.e. album, year, cover,...) to the aac file using a shell comand.
Thanks!
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Converting mp4 to mp3
I have a video I need to convert to mp3 (from the command line - not GUI)
video.mp4
I tried:
ffmpeg -i -b 192 video.mp4 video.mp3
with no success. I get the following error:
WARNING: ...
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Looking for european SVN hosting / Do hosting myself [closed]
I got Ubuntu 11.10 and I recently decided to start work with SVN. I did some research for remotely hosting svn, and it found that most of them are in US Servers...
I live in Israel so I want a ...
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How do I convert a svg to a png using dithering for gradients?
If I create a gradient between two similar colours in Inkscape and export it to a png it looks something like this:
If you look closely you can see rings.
If I create a gradient in GIMP, there's the ...
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Movie from tiff pictures
How can I create a movie from multiple tiff files in ubuntu?
I have multiple tiff picture files and I want to merge them into a movie. Each picture should show for about 0.1s. The final movie format ...
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How do I convert audiobooks from mp3 to m4b?
I've moved from Windows to Ubuntu and I have problems converting my new books (in mp3) to m4b. There are a lot of Windows applications which could do that, but what about Ubuntu?
