Free stuff!

I had to recreate a tediously tedious, publication for distribution around those cheese and wine, get togethers, where nobody actually drinks any wine, eats any cheese, and never means one single moment of that smile that is permenantly on guard duty.

But to do it I needed some OCR (optical character recognition) software, as I couldn't face endless hours of typing phrases such as, "Embracing from day one..... energizing the entire community... and maybe even.... equalizing belief in the spirit of equally spirited believers of this millenium.

So not having the $500 needed for the latest batch of overpriced software, I went in search of maybe a trial version.. I found a great piece of software which is free and worked wonderfully!! From every crappy thing, a possibly not so crappy thing may emerge. (Sometimes just another piece of crap emerges, but not today)

For anyone wondering what OCR is, it's a way of scanning a page from a book (for instance) and then turning an image of that page, into editable text. So you don't have to type it in again. Most people think that simply retyping would take no time at all, and usually around the 4th page, they see the road ahead get longer, instead of that 'quick' 30 mins they had originally hoped for. Mythological tales of generations of families completing their sections of the text, as they die of boredom and carpal tunnel syndrome, because you can bet that any text you have to re-enter, is not something YOU would have done originally, as you would already have it as a text file. So there is no way the Gods are going to let it be in any way interesting to you.