Any file on a computer is basically reduced to a binary code which in turn could be written as a text code. An image file is no exception to this. Since an image file has a form in a text code, you ...

Learn how to detect and extract text from images and scanned files using Python and OCR. Step-by-step guide for developers ...

There are basically two kinds of people who want to write things in plain text files: those who have to deal with weird, intractable cross-platform formatting issues, and those who just like the ...

Welcome to part two in a series about steganography, the art of hiding things in plain sight. We are practicing steganography because it can be a useful skill if you don't have access to encryption ...

Visual Studio Code has been my favorite programming text editor and integrated development environment (IDE) for years. Even ...

Runestone is the latest app from Simon Støvring, the developer behind Scriptable, Jayson, and Data Jar. Støvring’s apps tend to be focused on developer or automation use cases, filling holes in the ...

Carriage returns go back a long way – as far back as typewriters on which a mechanism or a lever swung the carriage that held a sheet of paper to the right so that suddenly letters were being typed on ...

Microsoft's ubiquitous spreadsheet application, Excel, is a useful tool for small and large businesses alike. However, the Excel format is proprietary and some software applications aren't able to ...

One of the most common problems identified by static code analysis tools is the presence of plain text passwords written directly into configuration files. It's ...