Monthly Archives: February 2012

Birth of the Cloud

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Otis

As with any software development company, LEAD has several test machines in various departments which we use to run lengthy stability tests, set up specific operating systems or environments, and pretty much anything else you wouldn’t want to use your … Continue reading →

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Working With PDFs

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Otis

PDF is one of the most popular formats for exchanging and archiving documents. It supports various forms of security, metadata, and the ability to store all of the necessary display information such as fonts, vector and images. In short, PDF … Continue reading →

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OCR Simplified

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Otis

On the outside, OCR (or Optical Character Recognition) is a pretty straight forward concept. You take an image (scanned document in most cases), and convert it into a searchable or editable format such as PDF, Word or Text. On the … Continue reading →

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Got Metro?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Otis

When I first heard that the Windows 8 Developer Preview was available, I was very excited to check it out.  I have been a fan of Windows Phone 7 from the start, and was looking forward to seeing how Microsoft … Continue reading →

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