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See Text in Whole New Way: Text Visualization Tools

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Angel Brady

Data min­ing, con­cor­dances, word fre­quen­cies, all these things can be done to ana­lyze text and to dis­play the results (which are usu­ally also in text form). Some­times though, these results are hard to read, track, and to see cor­re­la­tion and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Open Source Word Processors That Keep Arabic Characters Together

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Angel Brady

We recently came across an issue that a fac­ulty mem­ber was hav­ing issues with stu­dents using Ara­bic in Microsoft Word on their Mac com­put­ers. When they type words, the char­ac­ters do not con­nect like they should (each let­ter was sep­a­rate). … Con­tinue read­ing →

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How to Render Arabic Text Properly in Flash CS4 with Actionscript

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Angel Brady

I have been work­ing on a project that requires to have Ara­bic text in a flash web­site. The issue is that every time we add Ara­bic text, some of the let­ters get flipped when we export the movie (.swf file). … Con­tinue read­ing →

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MIT Lecture Browser

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Angel Brady

  The MIT Lec­ture Browser lets you search for video lec­tures by using text key­words and/or cat­e­gories like you would when you search for some­thing in a search engine (like Google). It will then find any video with that word … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Free Online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Tool: Free OCR

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Angel Brady

OCR stands for (Opti­cal Char­ac­ter Recog­ni­tion). What OCR does is that it takes a doc­u­ment like a pdf or an image that has text in it and con­verts it into a form where you can edit the text. This tool … Con­tinue read­ing →

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