Author: dcardin
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Browser Extensions And User Snippets
Chrome Extensions And User Snippets Most Open Source Intelligence collection techniques rely on your web browser for accessing and acquiring data. Chrome Extensions play a major role in helping extract and archive data from web pages. Extensions provide you with the “easy” button, when it comes collecting the data. User Snippets are multiline Javascript functions…
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The Four Ways To Capture A Web Page
The Four Ways To Capture A Web Page For last several years, I have learned a lot about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and wanted to share with others my knowledge about this field. My background is in Computer Science and have 20 years of experience at this point. In a series of Blog posts, I…
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with LIA
OCR is the process of converting either printed documents or images with words into digital text that can be used for analysis. This is helpful for transforming PDFs that contain images with words into something that can be indexed and made searchable within LIA. Alternatively, OCR is also known as text recognition. This functionality can…
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Boolean Search with LIA
The Local Internet Archive or LIA now supports Boolean search. Boolean search can help you narrow or widen your search criteria depending on your needs. LIA supports the following Boolean search options: NOT AND OR These provide the ability to focus a search, particularly when your topic contains multiple search terms. For example, let imagine…