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Documents DIY – How to Convert Your Scanned Documents for FREE using OCR!

max — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:41:41 +0000

Most scanners comes with an OCR(Optical Character Recognition) software that will convert your scanned documents into text. Of course, if you happened to scan a document somewhere sometime but wanted to quickly convert it to digitized text, you might want to learn that there’s a FREE OCR conversion site called Free-OCR.com.

In a test conducted by Lifehacker, this OCR was just as effective as a commercial OCR software:

The rate of errors and quirks in the conversion wasn’t much higher than commercial OCR software and just like using a commercial solution you’ll need to go through and double check to make sure what you see and what the machine sees are the same thing. If you know of other free OCR services, share the wealth in the comments below.

I have to agree that a free website for OCR is awesome, especially since it also converts PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF or BMP formatted files.

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Tax DIY – How to Digitize and Simplify Your Taxes and Receipts!

max — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:27:26 +0000

I have to admit to being busy last whole week due to the fact that I have been doing my taxes.

This year, I did things a little different. Since the IRS now lets you have digital copies of all your receipts, I decided it’s finally time to throw away all my files and receipts.

So, I “scanned” every one of my receipts and related-tax documents into JPEG image files, PDFs, and Word documents.

Why?

Well, think of it this way, how would you like to show IRS all your receipts and tax history on your Blackberry or just a flash drive?

I just did, all my receipts are stored digitally in my Blackberry 8830 and came out to about 50 megabytes for 2008. Not too bad right?

Having your receipts digitized will allow you to save paper too. Besides saving earth, you will also benefit from the fact that you can take ALL your tax records with you wherever you go. That means no more file boxes and whatnot.

If you can get yourself to scan every receipt and invoice you receive from today on, you will be able to take advantage of what today’s technology and laws have to offer.

So, here’s how you can digitize your taxes and your life too:

1. Get a scanner. There’s special receipt scanners too but if you already have a regular scanner like me, that will do.

2. Scan ALL your receipts. Name your files with the date first, then the tax classification such as “meals”, and where you bought something such as “Taco Bell” and the amount.

For example, if you ate Taco Bells lunch on 01/10/08 and paid $5.99 for your meal including taxes, name your file, 011008-meals-tacobell-5.99.jpg.

After doing many, it’d look something like this:

3. After you scan all your receipts and invoices, you can organize them into files that will neatly divide your records.

4. Make a simple spreadsheet for each tax classification and find out the total. For example, you can make a “meals” excel spreadsheet and list all the meals there.

5. When you do your taxes, you won’t be fiddling thorugh bunch of real receipts, you can actually do it anywhere you bring your digital copies.

6. If IRS wants to audit you, you won’t have to waste time fiddling through bunch of paper, just hand them a flash drive with all your tax records.

Trust me, digitizing will save you more money and time later down the road.

Well, I hope this helped you and even if you did your 2008 taxes already, start scanning everything so you will be ahead when the next year tax filing comes around.

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DIY 3D Scanner made from Regular Flatbed Scanner!

max — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:16:08 +0000

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Here’s a video of a DIY 3D scanner made from regular flatbed scanner. It can only scan cylindrical objects but sure hell beats any over-priced 3D scanners.

“I modified a Dell scanner in such a way that it can used to scan cylindrical objects such as a soda can or, in this case, an energy drink can.”

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Microsoft Devising Evil Plans to Take Over the Retail World!

max — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:49:53 +0000

Microsoft announced that they will be planning new retail stores to outwit Apple.

Wow… I truly think this won’t help their products since most PCs are already monopolized by Microsoft but then, if they want to waste more money on marketing, especially when retail is doing bad, by all means go ahead. They truly must have billions of dollars to throw down the toilet. :p

Mr. Porter, who is set to start work on Tuesday, is charged with improving the PC-buying experience. The company said his first task would be to set the timing, locations and design of Microsoft-branded retail stores, which will sell computers installed with Microsoft software as well as other company products.

Microsoft has been working to revive the image of its ubiquitous Windows operating system, starting with a $300 million advertising campaign that began last fall. Vista, the most recent version of the software, was widely criticized for being slow, requiring new and pricier hardware, and not working with devices like printers and scanners. Vista has also been the subject of a series of snarky television ads from Apple.

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DIY Green/Red Laser Projector!

max — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:36:12 +0000

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Wow, check out this green/red laser projector which can do animations.

This is one of my experimental Dance/Trance songs from 2000. I build laser systems for fun so I have put together pictures and clips from assembly to a full working system to go with the song. I know the song gets really annoying after awhile sorry. Iv’e been getting a lot of email asking how the projector works and what parts are in it.
Here’s how the projector works:
The green laser bounces off a mirror then through a green beam splitter, the beam is then separated (The reason for this is later I added a second beam turret projector which did not work well so I removed it and also the beam splitter The Green beam then bounces off a red dichroic filter and into the Scanners. The red laser passes through the red dichroic filter this allows you to mix the two colors into one beam or into dual images if the alignment is off.
(Most all of the video uses the red laser because the green was too bright for the video camera)
Here is some information on my laser system and where you can find the parts.

Laser controller and software I use is from
http://www.laserillusions.com/
This is a great package and costs a fraction of any other laser software about $400.00″

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