Extracting text from PDFs without pdftotext
How to extract text from PDFs in Java with Apache PDFBox when pdftotext and its X Windows dependencies are unavailable.
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Monkeys and shakespeare: genetic algorithms with Jenes
This morning, I decided to see what Wikipedia had to say about monkeys and typewriters and eventually stumbled across an article about the “Weasel program” which Richard Dawkins wrote to demonstrate “random variation and non-random cumulative selection in natural and artificial evolutionary systems.” Basically, it simulates the monkeys on a typewriter to produce a line from Hamlet. At this point, I was hooked – I wanted to make one.
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A beginner Android project covering SDK setup, GPS location updates, Flickr geotagged photo retrieval, permissions, background downloads, and Gallery display.
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