Freeware Directory
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Free OCR – Free Optical Character Recognition program
Posted on May 4th, 2009 45 commentsFree OCR is a complete scan and OCR program including the Tesseract free OCR engine v2.03. It includes a Windows installer, it is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff´s, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff´s which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read. It has Twain scanning included and support for multipage Tiff documents. Best of all it is totally free!
Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
What’s New in version 2.6:
- Minor bug fixes to PDF rendering code (from v2.5)
- PDF button – can now open and OCR scanned PDF files
- Images from a scanned document can be selected and placed on the clipboard
- Scans can be cropped before OCR
- Added button to remove line breaks from the OCR’ed text
- Fixed some bugs causing FreeOCR to crash when opening PNG’s
- Improved user interface
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Songbird – The Open Music Player
Posted on May 3rd, 2009 54 commentsSongbird is an open-source customizable music player that’s under active development.
We’re working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We’d love your help!
There are several features we’re proud of, but we’ll be the first to admit that others need ironing out, are experimental, or are just plain missing. There’s still a lot to do.
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UPX – the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 78 commentsUPX is a free, portable,
extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks because of in-place decompression.What’s New in version 3.03:
- implement cache flushing for PowerPC (esp. model 440)
- fix cache flushing on MIPS (>3 MiB compressed, or with holes)
- fix MIPS big-endian
- bug fixes
