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- Laravel Censor - Profanity and word filtering library for Laravel 10+ https://github.com/diego-ninja/laravel-censor 9 comments laravel
- 🎉 Introducing bag - A Flexible Bag of Words Library in Go 🚀 https://github.com/GopherML/bag 16 comments golang
- A php word wrapping library inspired by wordwrapjs https://github.com/kayw-geek/php-wordwrap 6 comments php
- DuckX - C++ library for Microsoft Word (.docx) files https://github.com/amiremohamadi/DuckX 29 comments cpp
- A curated list of awesome libraries. (not my words) https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp 7 comments cpp
- Best python Library for working with Microsoft Word? https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/76osh3/best_python_library_for_working_with_microsoft/ 4 comments learnprogramming
- Words of wisdom from a man with a library of over 150,000 books. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvhl&v=zkqaik-23dy 4 comments reddit.com
- Tesseract.js - a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images (pure javascript OCR) https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js 2 comments javascript
- I have written a simple library of Mock English words and sentences https://github.com/kayw-geek/php-mock 6 comments php
- Library to match words regardless of plurality https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/c2ml2i/library_to_match_words_regardless_of_plurality/ 7 comments swift
- Shakespeare’s handwriting to be digitised by British Library for first time - and his words defend refugees. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/shakespeare-s-handwriting-to-be-digitised-by-british-library-for-first-time-and-his-words-defend-a6931791.html 3 comments europes
- Are there any libraries that parse this JSON schema and data? (posted before but poorly worded) https://gea.esac.esa.int/archive/ 12 comments dotnet
- Word of advice regarding the use of the std::copy_constructible concept in the standard library https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/concepts/copy_constructible 41 comments cpp
- Billions of words, eight million books, 4,000 years of human thought - Cambridge University Library is 600 years old this year. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/lines-of-thought-discoveries-that-changed-the-world 237 comments books
- Extremist Christians force library to remove LGBTQ+ books to keep its doors open. They searched the library's catalog for words like "gay" and "transgender" to ban books. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/extremist-christians-force-library-to-remove-lgbtq-books-to-keep-its-doors-open/ 38 comments politics
- Amsterdam collection of rare and first edition books about esoteric subjects in danger of being sold off! We should spread the word to help preserve this eccentric library. http://www.phoenixrising.org.gr/en/2351/ritman-library-endangered-again-please-participate/ 3 comments books
- Stephen King has choice words for his books being banned in Florida. Twenty-three of King's books have been banned in Florida school libraries https://www.salon.com/2024/09/04/stephen-king-book-ban-florida/ 38 comments politics
- Library lists book as potentially “sexually explicit” because the author’s name is literally “Gay”. The library director admitted that the book was targeted because of the word "gay." https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/10/library-lists-book-as-potentially-sexually-explicit-because-the-authors-name-is-literally-gay/ 211 comments politics
- unidoc/unioffice: Pure go library for creating and processing Office Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx) and Powerpoint (.pptx) documents https://github.com/unidoc/unioffice 3 comments golang
- In the University of Michigan library, they have the most dangerous book in the world: Shadows from the Walls of Death. Eighty-six pages long, it has no words. http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/05/03/in-the-archives-poison-pages/index.html 257 comments books
- X-Rays Reveal "Hidden Library" on the Spines of Early Books - The words of the 8th-century St Bede are among those being found by detecting iron, copper & zinc, contents of medieval ink, without damaging the printed books. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/x-rays-reveal-hidden-library-spines-early-books-180959317/ 5 comments worldnews
- I wanna make a spellcheck library and I'm stuck on word suggestion. Two possible implentations are inside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_Distance 6 comments learnprogramming
- Evolving English: On top of the word - A fascinating new exhibition at the British Library shows how all attempts to standardise the English language have been resisted – & that's why it continues to flourish today http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/evolving-english-on-top-of-the-word-2181076.html 3 comments linguistics
- ‘I’m not real proud’: St. Marys public library gets new lease by removing LGBTQ books for kids -Advisory committee searched for LGBTQ words to identify and force removal of a dozen books https://kansasreflector.com/2023/11/16/im-not-real-proud-st-marys-public-library-gets-new-lease-by-removing-lgbtq-books-for-kids/ 265 comments books
- Republicans Fully Embrace McCarthy-Style Book Bans. Nearly seventy years ago, my father authored the American Library Association’s Freedom to Read Statement in response to McCarthy-era book bans. His words echo loudly today. https://progressive.org/latest/republicans-fully-embrace-mccarthy-style-book-bans/ 12 comments politics
- I am starting up a youth chess club at my local library and I am interested in having a chess vocabulary word of the night every time we meet. Looking for suggestions! https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/af9h8b/i_am_starting_up_a_youth_chess_club_at_my_local/ 41 comments chess
- Bot that grabs a random word and draws semi-random lines until the OCRad.js library recognizes it as the word http://reverseocr.tumblr.com/ 19 comments coding
- Adobe's e-reader software has been sending to Adobe–in the clear–a list of books read in the software as well as lists of books on an attached e-reader – in other words, collecting information about your electronic library. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/what-we-can-learn-adobe-e-reader-mess 9 comments technology
- Who Inherits Your iTunes Library?: "Many of us will accumulate vast libraries of digital books and music over the course of our lifetimes. But when we die, our collections of words and music may expire with us." http://www.marketwatch.com/story/who-inherits-your-itunes-library-2012-08-23 39 comments law
- Loeb Classical Library — a 515-volume series of essential Latin and Greek texts with English translations — preparing to convert series to digital format that would allow authorized users to search the English translations for specific words, ideas, and phrases. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/02/loeb_classical_library_plans_for_digital_version_of_its_classics 9 comments books
- Authorities in Fort Worth, TX removed the word “public” from the name of the city library. It’s now the Fort Worth Library, not the Fort Worth Public Library. Their press release: the word “public” has “negative connotations.” http://firedoglake.com/2011/05/15/the-public-disappears/ 8 comments politics