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PDFlib TET (Text Extraction Toolkit) is software for reliably extracting text information from any PDF file. It is available as a library/component and as a command-line tool. TET makes available the text contents of a PDF as Unicode strings or structured XML, plus detailed glyph and font information. With TET you can retrieve the corresponding Unicode values for text in a PDF document, as well as its position on the page.
In addition to low-level text retrieval TET contains advanced content analysis algorithms for determining word boundaries, removing redundant duplicate text (such as shadows and artificial bold). Using the auxiliary pCOS interface you can retrieve arbitrary objects from the PDF, such as metadata, hypertext, etc.
Fully functional evaluation versions of TET including documentation and samples are available from the TET download page for all supported platforms. Purchasing a license and applying the license key will fully enable the evaluation version for production deployment.
With PDFlib TET you can:
- extract text from PDF, e.g. to store it in a database
- implement a search engine for processing PDF
- convert the text content of PDF pages to XML for processing with other tools
- process PDFs based on their contents
Supported PDF Input
PDFlib TET supports all relevant flavors of PDF input:
- all PDF versions up to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8)
- all font and encoding types: base 14 fonts, TrueType, PostScript, OpenType, CID fonts
- encrypted PDF with 40- and 128-bit encryption (appropriate permission settings or password required)
Unicode
Although text in PDF is usually not encoded in Unicode, PDFlib TET will normalize the text from a PDF document to Unicode:
- TET converts all text contents to Unicode. In C the text will be returned in the UTF-8 or UTF-16 formats, and as native Unicode strings in all other language bindings.
- Ligatures and other multi-character glyphs will be decomposed into a sequence of their constituent Unicode characters.
- Vendor-specific Unicode assignments (Private Use Area, PUA) are identified, and mapped to characters in the common Unicode area if possible.
- Glyphs without appropriate Unicode mappings are identified as such, and are mapped to a configurable replacement character.
Full CJK Support
TET includes full support for extracting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text. All predefined CJK CMaps (encodings) are recognized; horizontal and vertical writing modes are supported.
Content Analysis and Word Identification
TET can be used to retrieve low-level glyph information, but also includes advanced algorithms for content analysis:
- Detect word boundaries to retrieve words instead of characters.
- Recombine the parts of hyphenated words.
- Remove duplicate instances of text, e.g. shadow and artificial bold text.
- Recombine paragraphs into reading order.
- Reorder text which is scattered over the page.
- Reconstruct lines of text.
Geometry
TET provides precise metrics for the text, such as the position on the page, glyph widths, text direction. Specific areas on the page can be excluded or included in the text extraction, e.g. to ignore headers and footers or margins.
Version restrictions:
- Unlicensed versions support all features, but will only process PDF documents with up to 10 pages and 1 MB size. Evaluation versions of TET must not be used for production purposes, but only for evaluating the product. Using TET for production purposes requires a valid TET license.
Enhancements:
- repair mode for damaged PDF repairs damaged documents which were rejected by earlier versions of TET
- support for PDF 1.7, the file format of Acrobat 8
- support for AES-encrypted PDF (appropriate password required)
- TET command-line tool: extract the text based on article threads in the document
- updated pCOS interface (the same pCOS as in PDFlib 7)
- Perl language binding
- many new heuristics and workarounds
- Unicode mappings for more documents
- improvements in the Wordfinder
- various bug fixes
- TET Plugin for Acrobat as a free tool and TET technology demo

VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and IT professionals who want to streamline software development, testing and deployment in their enterprise.
VMware Workstation software allows the users to run multiple x86-based operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and NetWare, and their applications simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual machines no hard drive partitioning or rebooting required.
Shipping for more than six years and winner of more than a dozen major product awards, VMware Workstation improves productivity and flexibility, and reduces costs so dramatically that it has become an indispensable tool for software development and IT professionals worldwide.
Main features:
- Streamline software development and testing operations. Create multiple development and testing environments as virtual machines on a single PC and use them to test "real world" multi-tier configurations, complex networks, and multiple operating systems and applications all on a single machine.
- Improve team collaboration. The portability and hardware-independent properties of virtual machines, coupled with new features in VMware Workstation, lets users easily share development environments and pre-packaged testing configurations without risk, and also facilitates collaboration between development and QA.
- Enhance the productivity of IT professionals. Allows system administrators and other enterprise IT professionals to test software, including new applications, application updates, and operating system patches, in virtual machines prior to deployment on physical PCs or servers in a production environment. IT help desk departments can create and reference a virtual library of end-user configurations to help them resolve problems more quickly.
- Introduce virtual infrastructure to your enterprise. Virtual machines created in Workstation can be deployed to the other desktop and server virtualization platforms offered by VMware. Introducing VMware Workstation virtualization to the desktop is an ideal first step to transforming your physical IT infrastructure into virtual infrastructure.
VMware Workstation works by creating fully isolated, secure virtual machines that encapsulate an operating system and its applications. The VMware virtualization layer maps the physical hardware resources to the virtual machines resources, so each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, and I/O devices, and is the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine. VMware Workstation installs onto the host operating system and provides broad hardware support by inheriting device support from the host.
Enhancements:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html

MovieFinder is the program you need if you want to keep an inventory of your personal movie collection.
A very helpfull feature of MovieFinder is that movie information and a cover image are automatically downloaded from IMDb.
Main features:
- Keep an inventory of your personal movie collection.
- Movie information and a cover image are automatically downloaded from IMDb.
- Easily pick out movies to watch.
- Keep a group of selections you or your guests are currently interested in watching.
- Browse posters / DVD cover images.
- Customize program appearance.
- Same download runs on ANY Operating System.
Easily pick out movies to watch.
- Its features concentrate on narrowing down movies displayed based on selected criteria.
- Display criteria can be used concurrently in any combination, with absolutely no restrictions.
- For example, you can have the program display all movies that have Action AND Suspense AND entered your library after a certain date AND stars a specific actor AND has a minimum personal rating of XXX (AND several other fields).
You can continue narrowing down movies displayed in this fashion based on the following criteria:
- 21 different genres, including one custom genre
- Personal rating (1-5 stars)
- Director or Actor/Actress
- MPAA Rating
- Year of production
- Date of entry into your collection
- In Stock/Checked Out status
- Checked out to a specific name/location
The Selections tab looks nearly identical to the Genre Searcher tab, but the source of movies displayed is different.
- Instead of displaying your library, it displays movies that you have previously selected for various reasons.
- Movies can be selected by clicking on the titles from the Genre Searcher tab or by clicking on the Select this Movie button on the Movie Details tab.
- You can print a list of your current selections (or even delete them from your library) via the Options tab.
- You can further narrow down your selections the same way you did on the Genre Searcher tab.
- Selections are remembered whenever you save the current state of your library.
The Poster View tab allows you to browse your movies associated movie posters / DVD covers.
- Change the source of movies displayed in the left column via radio buttons
- Zoom in on the image or switch to that movies details.

CHAINSAWLINUX, brought to you by Crimson Chain Productions, is an Operating System and a movie editing suite, a CGI & 3D animation suite, as well as so much more, all wrapped into one nice package.

The developers of CHAINSAWLINUX, a film & video production company located in Maryland, are proud to offer an alternative choice to other packages. Since we are also filmmakers, we understand the things that filmmakers want.

On top of that, everything inside is open source, which means you have access to the source code of the software so that you can edit, fix, upgrade, or otherwise manipulate the software to do as you wish. Your options are limitless!

Hardware is very important in an editing system - its like the days of the old muscle cars - the bigger the engine, the faster your car. CHAINSAWLINUX runs on the x86 32 & 64-bit architectures (basically, it runs on PCs).

The PC should be fairly fast - a bare minumum of a 1Ghz Processor with at least 512Mb of RAM and at least 50Gb of hard drive space would be preferred. A striped RAID system is highly recommended for importing and exporting video, but you may be able to get by with less (performance varies from system to system).

For Cinelerra, it is recommended to have at least a Dual 2.4Ghz Opteron, 4GB RAM, 200 GB storage for movie files and a Gigabit ethernet. The Renderfarm node should consist of at least a Single 2.4Ghz Athlon, 512MB RAM, Flash hard drive and a 100MB ethernet.

We understand not everyone can always afford decent editing hardware, but its what we recommend as a bare minimum. It boils down to this: the faster your machine, the less waiting around on editing...

CHAINSAWLINUX is not a webserver, nor a mailserver. It is not a DHCP server, nor a name-server. Nor is it a router, a firewall, a ftp server, or a fileserver. It wasnt made to be any of the types of network servers or routers that are usually associated with many Linux distributions. But it is made to be an easy and fast user-interface for editing movies.

Scheture project is our schematic capture package. The package is built atop the same database as all of the other Stabie-Soft products. The schematic editor handles iterated instances, bused pins and wires, parameter passing etc.
The latest production version of Scheture is 3.3.1, please download it if your using an older version to get the latest updates and bug fixes.
Perhaps one of the best features is schetures ability to generate a schematic (and symbols) from netlist formats such as verilog or spice. Take it for a 30 day test drive and see if it is right for you. See the pricing page for details on our free 30 day evaluations.
Main features:
- User control of all object colors and fonts.
- Control of position, size, font, color of property display of symbols.
- A specific placement of a symbol may override property display position, size, font or color.
- Implicit connection of symbol pins by name possible for specific schematics.
- In the schematic here, note the bulk connections are made with this type of connection. No explicit connection to the bulk is drawn, but all unconnected bulks will be connected by name in this schematic only.
- Implicit global connection of symbol pins possible.
- Symbol properties may be set for display only (IE ignored by netlister).
- Symbol generator.
- Net tracing thru the hierarchy.
- Property values "push" down so in context display of properties available.
- Extractor.
- Hierarchical verilog out.
- Hierarchical spice out.
- Hierarchical smash out. (For Dolphins SMASH mixed mode simulator).
- Netlist to schematic generator to build a schematic from a netlist.
- Sample of nor3 and adder. Both these schematics were built completely automatically from spice netlists. Note verilog can also be auto generated for cross probing or visualization of hdl.
- Parasitic net schematic generator to visualize an extracted nets R/C network.
- Interfaces with Mentors RVE product. Cross-probe between layout & schematic.
- Interfaces to open source waveform viewer GWave.
- User specified port order available for spice subcircuits and verilog primitives.
- Plotting, and includes a command to plot all schematics in a library.
- Sample library of symbols provided.
- Free upgrades after purchase
Enhancements:
- This release adds a number of minor improvements.
- These include a new symbol popup menu to place standard and recently placed symbols quickly.
- Also new are real arc/circle/ellipse shapes for more cosmetically attractive symbols.
- Previously, these shapes were constructed from lines and polygons.
- Wires can now be named with iterators such as "{N1,N2}(3)" to compactly represent the name "N1,N2,N1,N2,N1,N2".
- More complex iterators are supported as well.
- A number of new options have been added to the "check & save" command to beautify the schematic during the "check & save" process.