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[Bohandas]

Unrelated question: Can anyone recommend a cheap Blu-Ray burner?

[Thief^]

I don't think you'll find a blue-ray burner too cheap, they're not in common use.

I can't help on the pdf question, but I'm interested in an answer it would be really useful.

[BigD145]

Unrelated question: Can anyone recommend a cheap Blu-Ray burner?

Cheap are $80-100 US. Good? I have no clue. Hit up a place like newegg.com and read reviews.

[aenri]

Can anyone recommend a good downloadable OCR program that I could run PDF files through so that text can be selected and copied? Preferably one outputting a modified PDF rather than a file in a different format.

So you want to convert a PDF to a PDF...

A pdf made of images of text to a pdf of selectable, searchable text

EDIT:
What I'm looking for is a downloadable open source or at least free version of this:

http://www.robertyale.com/blog/2011/4/12/use-adobe-acrobat-pro-to-make-scanned-pdfs-searchable.html

Well you can use the aptly named FreeOCR that uses Tesseract engine, one of the best on the market. It uses PDF no problem, but the quality of the scanned images is of paramount importance. Shit image = shit OCR. It's as simple as that.

[Bohandas]

Can anyone recommend a good downloadable OCR program that I could run PDF files through so that text can be selected and copied? Preferably one outputting a modified PDF rather than a file in a different format.

So you want to convert a PDF to a PDF...

A pdf made of images of text to a pdf of selectable, searchable text

EDIT:
What I'm looking for is a downloadable open source or at least free version of this:

http://www.robertyale.com/blog/2011/4/12/use-adobe-acrobat-pro-to-make-scanned-pdfs-searchable.html

Well you can use the aptly named FreeOCR that uses Tesseract engine, one of the best on the market. It uses PDF no problem, but the quality of the scanned images is of paramount importance. Shit image = shit OCR. It's as simple as that.

I've actually tried that but couldn't find any option to incorporate the results back into the PDF

I've absolutely no need of the text in a seperate file.

[Aklyon]

Have you tried making a new pdf instead of trying to merge the text back into the old one?

[aenri]

....

I've actually tried that but couldn't find any option to incorporate the results back into the PDF

I've absolutely no need of the text in a seperate file.

Then you could use OCRmyPDF its a python script, so you need docker to run it (and a bit of IT knowledge). It also uses Tesseract engine.

[Bohandas]

Does anybody know how to add a new item to an existing table of contents in Libre Office? I'm trying to edit a document someone else started.

EDIT:
I've got a general idea of how to do it by setting the beginning of my new section to the heading style and then hitting Update Table on the ToC, but that makes the formatting go berserk. Also, what If I didn't want a corresponding heading in the body of the document?

[wierd]

Got an update on that CF-IDE adapter.

Yes, it technically supports UDMA. UDMA mode 2, that is. But not with multisector transfer. Also no write buffer.

Also, for some mysterious reason, it likes to corrupt the filesystem for no discernable reason, but I have seen this with other SDCard based solutions. I wonder if it is related to the SDCard's wear leveling.

Also, Mint seems to hate it. It always tries to drive it at UDMA mode 5, even though the drive does not support it, and subsequently, the filesystem gets corrupted super fast. I have tried forcing Mint to use a slower mode, but it just accepts my CLI wizardry, then promptly ignores it. Win7 seems to work OK on it though. Due to the absurdly low memory in that ancient technology (512mb!!) I want very much to use Linux, so I can use zram.  Stupidness abounds.

Maybe I will compromise and install windows XP on it instead.

It would work great as a storage volume that gets very little write traffic, but meh.

[cochramd]

This morning, I was embarrassed to find that one of the CAD lab computers at school ran DF significantly faster and more smoothly than my computer at home. I compared the hardware, and while we're matched in RAM at 8 gigs each, my AMD Phenom II X4 965 appears to be inferior to its Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz. At last, I know it is my CPU that is the limiting factor.

I've got an MSI 790GX-G65, so if I'm going to buy a new CPU without buying a new motherboard too it'll have to be AM3+ socket and thus AMD. However, I know that DF performance is reflected by single thread performance, and AMD doesn't seem to do so well with that. In fact they don't seem that good at all.

My school is selling decommissioned computers. Buying a computer identical to the ones in the CAD lab would be $150. It might be  a cheap way to switch over to Intel......what should my next move be?

[Thief^]

Buy that CAD lab PC.

I love AMD, but they really aren't great for DF.

[Bohandas]

BTW, update on my OCR question earlier; I eventually found Orpalis PDF OCR, which seems to work passibly well and does what I want it to

http://www.orpalis.com/labs/pdfocr/

I still need to try aneri's suggestion though; for all I know it might work even better, I've just been putting it off because I had trouble with the last Pyhon program I tried to use

[Sonlirain]

Allright. So something weird happened to my DVD Drive/burner.

I recently reinstalled windows on a new HDD and everything was fine... BUT a few weeks ago upon starting the PC i heard a rather concerning sound coming from my PC.
I was scared shitless in case it's the Radeon i bought somewhat recently going to explode.
It sounded like PC fans going hyper (but it could be the DVD Drive as well now that i think about it)
The power button didn't work so i pulled the plug. I reset the PC later and it booted up normally.

And it works so far BUT recently i discovered that the DVD Drive went to the psychiatric ward (i assume the event described has something to do with it.).
Sometimes it's simply completely gone.
Another time the PC detects it as a CD-ROM drive.
And rarely it's seen as a DVD-RW drive.

I managed to install Caesar3 from an old CD with it but failed to burn any CDs so far 9and stopped trying). Usually upon trying the drive will simply vanish.

[i2amroy]

Could be a driver issue, try purging whatever old drivers you have for the CD drive and reinstalling them.

[Sonlirain]

Could be a driver issue, try purging whatever old drivers you have for the CD drive and reinstalling them.

This is a fresh instal of windows. Doubt i have any old drivers.
And even if i have i need to wait for the drive to become visible to even be able to remove the drivers from the control panel (If it ever decides to become visible again because it seems to be completely dead now. I'll probably open up the case later and check the SATA cable.)