links for 2010-03-29

  • From time to time a user may not be able to edit a Drupal node and you end up tearing your hair out trying to figure out why. Sometimes the solution is obvious, and sometimes it is not. This post will take you through some of the main reasons for the problem along with suggested solutions.
  • This module lets you publish contents directly on your WordPress blog. Using this module, you can configure and publish a node immediately after it has been published on your Drupal site. You don't have to press any link to share your content to your blog. This module also offers options to share the content on per node basis as well as on per content type basis.
  • PDF OCR is a simple drag-and-drop utility that converts PDFs and images into text documents. It uses advanced OCR (optical character recognition) technology to extract the text of the PDF or image. This is particularly useful for dealing with PDFs and images that were created via a scan-to-PDF function in a scanner or photo copier. It uses the Tesseract engine to perform OCR, and currently supports over 20 languages for OCR.
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