ocrs is a Rust library and CLI tool for extracting text from images, also known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
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Clipcat – clipboard manager written in Rust
Clipcat is a clipboard manager which supports X11 and experimental support for Wayland. It uses a client-server architecture.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Screencasting Software
A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, typically carrying audio narration. We recommend the best free and open source screencasting tools.
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Machine Learning in Linux: EasyOCR – OCR that reads natural scene text and dense text in documents
EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Tox Clients
Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption. We recommend the finest Tox clients.
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Emborg – Front-End to BorgBackup
Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is a front-end to Borg, powerful and fast de-duplicating backup software.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Bluetooth File Exchange
Apple Bluetooth File Exchange is a utility to view the Public folder on the device, retrieve and send files from/to the device.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition
Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – Finance
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering finance software, bitcoin clients, econometrics, and other financial applications.
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4 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Track Cryptocurrencies
We recommend tools that let you monitor cryptocurrencies.
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Machine Learning in Linux: TTS – deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech
Coqui TTS (TTS) is a library for advanced Text-to-Speech generation. It offers pretrained models in more than 1,100 different languages.
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Delta Chat – messaging software that works with e-mail
Delta Chat is a chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Tortoise TTS – text-to-speech program
Tortoise TTS is a multi-voice text-to-speech system trained with an emphasis on quality.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Load Balancers
Load balancing is defined as the methodical and efficient distribution of network or application traffic across multiple servers. Here’s our verdict on the best ones for Linux.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Audio MIDI Setup
Audio MIDI Setup is a utility to describe the configuration of your MIDI devices. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Blue Recorder – simple screen recorder written in Rust
Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors
This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.
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explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text
explainshell is a tool (with a web interface) which parses man pages, extracts options and explains a given command-line by matching each argument to the relevant help text in the man page.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Window Managers
There are a few different types of window managers. This article recommends the best tiling window managers.
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Dooit – TUI to-do manager
Dooit is billed as a todo manager that you didn’t ask for, but needed. It’s free and open source software written in Python.
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