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Whilst I am unable to find any example documents to test my theory with, the website says:
WWF documents can be opened with most programs that can open PDFs
I suspect that ultimately Evince (the default PDF reader in Ubuntu) can already read these files. If you can get your hands on a .wff, try renaming it to .pdf, or right click and try Open With ...
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The name for this type of procedure is OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
That link also offers a couple of choices:
gocr - A command line OCR
fuzzyocr - spamassassin plugin to check image attachments
libhocr0 - Hebrew OCR
ocrad - Optical Character Recognition program
ocrfeeder - Document layout analysis and optical character recognition system
ocropus - ...
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If you are comfortable with python you could use the script on http://blog.matt-swain.com/post/25650072381/a-lightweight-xmp-parser-for-extracting-pdf-metadata-in. I have just tested the scripts he provides (for a start, you can pip install pdfminer) and they work nicely. The result they give is something along the lines of:
[{'ModDate': ...
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If someone made plans to write code which precludes your ability to do what you choose with data under Linux, someone else would write code that liberates said data. So the question is somewhat moot.
This seems more like a publicity ploy by the creators than anything that could possibly catch on as in:
I'm going to send you a document which prevents you ...
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Changing the font size in a plain text editor will only change how your file is shown, but not, which font size it actually has (this can't be changed in a plain text file, it contains only the text, no formattings). If you want to have an document with different font sizes you have to use an office suite, for example Libre Office ...
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There is another alternative. You could sudo apt-get install pdftk. With that library you can run a command like pdftk myfile.pdf dump_data which results in something in a set of info and value:
InfoKey: Creator
InfoValue: Word
InfoKey: Producer
InfoValue: Mac OS X 10.3.8 Quartz PDFContext
InfoKey: ModDate
InfoValue: D:20050422142709+02'00'
InfoKey: ...
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.do is a web extension, not the file you are after downloading. In this case the link you are clicking that ends in .do should be pushing the docx but your browser is being handed the .do file itself.
You can test this by opening the developer tools (menu, tools, developer tools) then click on the timeline tab. When you click the link for your file you ...
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The issue of "opening" files without having to save them first has been under discussion since 2009. There's currently no simple way to do it.
The closest you can get is to instruct Chrome to automatically open files of a certain type after saving them:
As long as you haven't configured Chrome to ask where to save each file, this should allow you to view ...
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I don't know of any official ubuntu server hardening document, but hopefully the following will give you a good starting point:
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) publishes guidelines on how to secure *nix systems. This is what the big boys use as a starting point (DOD, Army, Etc.).
Also check out this SANS institute paper.
This list is ...
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You would need a full text indexing solution, which has a filter to support indexing the full text of those files.
One option for this is the tracker package in Ubuntu. You'll need to install tracker and tracker-miner-fs for this, and you'll also likely want tracker-gui for the search tool UI.
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A while ago evaluated the various OCR packages in Ubuntu, found that Tesseract was the least bad of them (but bad enough), and wrote a wrapper script for the OCRing (since Tesseract wants obscure input formats like TIFF). Here's my ~/bin/ocr:
#!/bin/sh
# usage: ocr filename.jpg
if test -z "$1"; then
echo "usage: ocr filename.jpg [...]"
echo "needs ...
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Try this extension (works well with LibreOffice on Gnome-Shell/Quantal) :
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/MultiSave
"MultiSave enables you to save simultaneoulsly a document in the OpenDocument, MS Office and/or PDF formats as you choose."
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No experience with ripole or .OLE2 documents, but from the man page it doesn't seem too hard to run from the terminal.
Have you used the terminal at all before? If not have a quick read of this
All I think you need to do is open a terminal then assuming the file is in /home/user/, make a new directory where you want the file to be extracted to (eg tmp) ...
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Unity runs on both Gnome 2 and Gnome 3. The panel you are referring to, is called Gnome Panel and is the shell we've used in Ubuntu in all versions prior to 11.04.
The Unity Launcher is not designed for bookmarks, but for applications. To get quick access to files and folders, use the files and folders lens. The quickest way to access it is by using the ...
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You can manually add your favourite files in the Quicklist of a Launcher-icon so that it looks like in this screenshot for LibreOffice Writer:
I describe the way for Precise Pangolin using Ubuntu Tweak (Version 0.7.0) - using MyUnity is similar:
Open Ubuntu Tweak > QuickLists Editor > click on LibreOffice-Writer on the left side > click on the little ...
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The Tesseract-ocr package is command line. If you want a program with a GUI, I use "gscan2pdf" and you can find it in the Ubuntu Software Center.
In gscan2pdf all you need to do is click the little scan icon near the top. I think it gives you two or three options, GOCR which isnt very good, and Tesseract which works admirably. Pick Tesseract and from this ...
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This post explains how to convert odt to pdf from the command-line very simply using CUPS.
http://www.yamamoto.com.ar/blog/?p=50
You can actually batch convert all the odt to pdf from a directory so this would actually save you from having to remember to export to pdf each single time!
Hope this helps!
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A quick and dirty example using code from the pyinotify project [http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify]
You will need to change the WATCHED_DIR to your directory containing ODT files. Also remember to install unoconv first.
# Notifier example from tutorial
#
# See: http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/wiki/Tutorial
#
# odtwatcher.py
import os
import pyinotify
...
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An alternative is Recoll . Once it has indexed your files, it finds the matching files quite fastly. Also searches inside ODSs, ODPs and PDFs. Works pretty well.
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There is a command-line tool pdfgrep which can perform your task.You can install it by
sudo apt-get install pdfgrep
To search for a regular expression:
find /path -iname '*.pdf' -exec pdfgrep -H 'pattern' {} \;
where path is location for your pdf files.
There is also a GUI tool called recoll which can search documents by indexing them.
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