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I recently faced this issue. Suddenly my network adapter gone off and connection shifted to wireless adapter.

Tried to reinstall the Driver from original MB CD… then this message flashed on screen:

The RealTek Network Adapter/Controller was not found.
If Deep Sleep Mode enabled Please Plug the Cable

After a bit googling (isn’t that great… solves to almost everything now-a-days) I got a simple solution. This may sound a bit tricky for novice users, but if done peacefully, it fixes the issue.

S/wed off my system and removed RAM from the Motherboard (I have 2 modules… so removed all). By this the BIOS was reset and my network adapter came out of Deep-Sleep.

On next boot I could see my Network Adapter working.

Optical Character Recognition, better known as OCR is a process of transforming images of any readable handwritten or printed text to machine editable text. After conversion these texts can be edited with any word processing software.

Pros

OCR process is the fastest way of converting text images to its editable form, and the product becomes accurate if cleaned up properly using many features offered by almost all the professional tools available in today’s market. OCR is quite popular among academicians, who often feel the need of having some part or even full of their reference materials be converted to editable text, so that they can re-use it in entirety or with minor editing instead of taking the pain of keying in the pages.

Cons

The OCR transcription generally has some unwanted characters or signs, which are multiplied if the quality source document is not excellent in terms of clarity of print. Some of the common problems are:

• every page may be of different layout
• the document is broken down to numerous sections – each page being an individual section
• unwanted line breaks at the end of the lines in paragraphs
• unwanted spaces in between paragraphs
• problems in character recognition — ‘i’ becomes I, ‘e’ becomes c, ‘rn’ becomes m, etc. This depends upon the printing quality, readability and type face used in the source document.

A word of Caution

There is a chance of a line getting dropped altogether here and there. This doesn’t happen every time, or to be specific most of the times, but it do happen, rarely. I personally experienced this a few times. So, it is wise to be aware of the issue beforehand.

Cleaning up

A clean, distinctly readable printed document produce good results when put under OCR process. This is because the scanner can read and recognize characters perfectly, and hence the reproduction is good, doesn’t need to be cleaned up much, except removing the section breaks, and occasional line breaks. But, for an average or poor manuscript, which is difficult to read or printing quality is not so good, the transcription will be filled with enormous level of various mark-ups, which you need to clear or clean using the OCR applications. The more attention is paid in cleaning-up process, the more accuracy is achieved.

OCR applications generally ask to open or import image files or pdfs containing printed texts, set-up the recognition areas with text, table or image tools – run the process by pressing read button or link. It then scans the image and returns texts recognized by the process to the editing window. Next it asks to run the spell check. After spell check it allows the product to be exported to word processing applications. But truly speaking, it is not so easy task as it looks to be.

OCR products must be cleared/ cleaned-up from all things listed under cons section in the editing mode itself. Otherwise can cause serious trouble if these are left out to be taken care of after exporting text to the word processing software.

I will try to explain more with examples in my next post.

Google has country specific domain and when you search in google, it displays the result for your country. Consider you are a business owner, selling services and products overseas through your website. You would very well like to know your site’s position in google results in different countries. So how you would do it?

Type ‘google.com/ncr’ in the browser’s address bar. ‘NCR’ stands for ‘No Country Redirect’. This will take you to google.com. Perform your search. This search result is google.com’s result. Now you want to see the result for US local search. Just add ‘&gl=us’ at the end of the url in the address bar and hit ‘enter’. This will bring up US local search result for your search term. Similarly you can add ‘&gl=uk’ to see UK’s local search for your search term.

To go to google.com regular site:
1) type ‘google.com/ncr’ in browser’s address bar and hit ‘enter’
2) address bar URL shows “https://www.google.com” – this is google’s regular site
3) perform search with say ‘typing service’
4) address bar URL shows “https://www.google.com/#q=typing+service” – this is google’s regular search result (no country specific)

To view US local search result:
5) add ‘&gl=us’ at the end of “https://www.google.com/#q=typing+service” – https://www.google.com/#q=typing+service&gl=us and hit ‘enter’ to go to US search result
6) address bar URL shows “https://www.google.com/#gl=us&q=typing+service” – this is google’s US local search result

To view UK local search result:
7) add ‘&gl=uk’ at the end of “https://www.google.com/#q=typing+service” – https://www.google.com/#q=typing+service&gl=uk and hit ‘enter’ to go to UK search result
6) address bar URL shows “https://www.google.com/#gl=uk&q=typing+service” – this is google’s UK local search result

Hope this example will help you to analyze your business prospect in different countries through google.

Accuracy and Speed both are important but the ranking depends on the type of work youre doing.

Let us discuss major professions need typing service skills:

• Administrative Assistant: You may not be doing a great deal of straight forward typing here. Rather, you may do a great deal of creating documents from scratch where you have to control design, layout etc. Though there are deadlines for every work, it is attention to accuracy and detail that makes the difference to the finished document. The motto here is right first time because there is nothing more tedious than reproofing documents over and over again.
• Transcriptionist: Yes, now you are talking about speed. Here progress needs to keep pace with the transcript or the dictation, else you will missing the queue. Mistakes and drops are corrected when you proof the final document. But, final document must be error free.

It is clear now that, in both professions accuracy is a must, speed can vary depending upon the job profile.

There are excellent incentives attached to the accuracy over speed.

1. Speed will drop but Accuracy is going to stay. My speed was 100 wpm with 100% accuracy. I haven’t done straight typing like that in a long time, so I know my speed has decreased considerably and will go down more with my age. my accuracy has not.
2. Accuracy will make up for Speed. If you type 100wpm+ speed with a lower accuracy level, the TYPING is completed within a very short period of time, but is the JOB accomplished? NO, itis NOT. You still need to proof the document. It takes more time with an elevated error level. However, if highest accuracy level is maintained with say 60wpm speed, total completion time will not be longer than the previous.A sense of satisfaction will be a bonus. And of course, you can compensate speed by knowing your way round the shortcut keys and menu/toolbars.
3. Clients Trust. Accurate product will satisfy Clients need and earn you the most valuable thing for any business Clients TRUST. They are saved from enormous harassment and loosing precious time of sending multiple review requests.

From the above discussion it can be said that Accuracy trumps speed, always!

My advice is whenever you type, try to get it correct! No worry… speed will pick up automatically with practice.