Linux Open Source News & Know-How, for Office Tasks
Tasks, software, services typically associated with office work
So you need to archive data for years (if not decades), and you really donāt trust a service provider to both stay in business, and play fair, for that long a time frame.
Continue reading S02E01 Archive this!
A script that will use multiple, publicly available RFC 3161-compatible services for timestamping files.
Continue reading timestamp.sh
A script that will monitor archive directories on a btrfs file system for changes, and call a user-defined bash function with a list of changed files and directories.
Continue reading archive.sh
So, you are the IT department in charge of your home office backups. Letās implement secure backups, and a time machine for home office Linux users.
Continue reading S01E03 Secure backups, and a time-machine for your home office
So, youāve got a handful of files and need to turn them into PDF format. PDF files that donāt just look good on your device, but everywhere, and are suitable for a long-term archiving.
Hereās what you can do.
Continue reading S01E02 Ā»Can I have this as a PDF?Ā«
A script that will create a PDF/A file with searchable & copyable text, from a source PDF file that (mostly, or totally) hasnāt.
Continue reading unsearchable2searchablepdfa.sh
A script that creates a Ā»slideshowĀ« in PDF/A format, from a directory of numbered and named images.
Continue reading pics2photodoc.sh
So, all youāve got is a PDF file full of information ā but you need (some of) its content in a different format.
Hereās what you can do.
Continue reading S01E01: Ā»Damn, this PDF is all Iāve gotā¦Ā«
A script that will crop a series of screenshots according to a manually provided sample crop, and then apply OCR to create a PDF.
Continue reading grabs2pdf.sh
A script that will grab a series of screenshots of any viewer application window that can be controlled by key presses.
Continue reading viewer2grabs.sh
