Observations on the world and its inhabitants
It is not uncommon that people receive a PDF text document that they cannot copy text from. They tend to spend on software that can do the job, or use online services. However, the quality of text output is largely a function of the cost. Cheap services and software are generally poor quality. Good quality ...
1. Purpose This brief governs the use of an AI language model to analyse documents and produce a faithful written account of it. It is designed for judgments, inquiry reports, and similar primary documents where accuracy of representation is paramount. There can be no guarantee that it will work for every situation or work with ...
Meld is a free, open-source comparison tool. It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. Its job is simple to state: put two versions of a document side by side and show you exactly where they differ. Programmers have used it for years to compare code. But nothing about it is limited to code. Any plain ...
This is one part of a strategy to clean up a MS Word document (ver 2019 and later). Too often I receive documents that have loads of double paragraphs, double-spaces between text, or a leading space at the beginning of a paragraph. Those are annoying. Today I deal with leading white spaces. This is only ...
The short clip below shows what Dragon Naturally Speaking does. Semmelweis Reflexes – are going off like crazy among those who would be proud to boast that they are luddites. Others have jumped on Google to find that Dragon is too expensive for them. I’ve gone slowly in my dictation below. Dragon can do this ...
Loads of people don’t know much about how to use a ‘word processor’. Hmmm.. the words ‘word processor‘ now seem so strange. Formatting documents is a most important activity. Why? A well presented letter or report starts off at an advantage of being well received and easier to read. The reader is put in the ...
