Commands tagged scanning (3)

  • Nmap find open TCP/IP ports for a target that is blocking ping

    Change the IP address from 127.0.0.1 to the target machines ip address. Even if the target has ICMP (ping) blocked, it will show you what ports are open on the target. Very handy for situations where you know the target is up and online but wont respond to pings. Show Sample Output


    0
    nmap -sT -PN -vv <target ip>
    Richie086 · 2011-07-22 02:37:19 0
  • Duplex PDF from a simplex scanner

    Rearrange pdf document coming from a simplex document feed scanner, feeded first with odd pages, then with even pages from the end. Needs pdftk >1.44 w/ shuffle. Similar to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7965/pdf-simplex-to-duplex-merge where there are 2 separate documents, odd and even


    0
    input=a.pdf ; pages=`pdftk $input dump_data | grep -i numberofpages | cut -d" " -f 2`; pdftk A=$input shuffle A1-$[$pages/2] A$pages-$[$pages/2+1] output "${input%.*}.rearranged.${input##*.}"
    kobayashison · 2015-04-26 20:05:20 0
  • Extract text from picture [OCR reader]

    Image to text converter. Convert your scanned book in image format like .png, .jpg into editable text format. OCR ==> Optical Code Reader Show Sample Output


    -3
    gocr -i ~/Screenshot.png
    totti · 2013-02-28 07:38:13 0

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