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Measure CPU temperature and your fan speed in Ubuntu Linux

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Update (2010-10-10): If you are getting “E: Couldn’t find package sensors-applet” errors, then add universe to /etc/apt/sources.list (add or uncomment http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu <dist code> universe) lm-sensors is a very useful tool to measure your CPU temperature and your fan speed (which is not in /proc/cpuinfo) in Ubuntu Linux. In order to use it, you will first […]

OCR for PDF in Ubuntu

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

To get OCR in Ubuntu, you need to use the Open-Source Tesseract OCR engine. However, it can only perform OCR on the TIFF format. In order to allow it to do PDF, we also need the Evince PDF reader to allow us to export a page to TIFF to feed Tesseract with. Install tesseract in […]

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