Optical Character Recognition is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into editable documents.
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Author: Steve Emms
Pin It! – pin shortcuts for your favorite portable apps to your app launcher
Pin It! is a small utility which lets you pin shortcuts for portable apps to your app launcher.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Safari
Safari is a freeware graphical web browser that’s not available for Linux. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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Szyszka – fast and powerful file renamer
Szyszka is a simple but powerful and fast bulk file renamer.
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21 Best Free and Open Source Linux DVD Tools
This article focuses on selecting the best free software which can use the DVD format.
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Snap Backup – one-click backup utility
Snap Backup is billed as the one-click backup utility that makes it simple to protect your important work.
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15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Compilers
Linux has a diverse range of other compilers available, many of which are released under freely distributable licenses. Here are the finest.
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System G – file manager with git support
System G provides a graphical interface to the UNIX file system.
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26 Best Free and Open Source Linux Integrated Development Environments
An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to programmers for software development.
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Machine Learning: Shell Genie – interact with the terminal in plain English
Shell Genie is a command-line tool that lets you interact with the terminal in plain English.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Speech Synthesis Tools
Speech synthesizers are text-to-speech systems used with computers. We feature the finest free and open source speech synthesizers.
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Sigma File Manager – modern file manager
Sigma File Manager is billed as a quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / browser) app.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Console Based XMPP Clients
Here’s our verdict on the best console-based XMPP clients. They are free and open source goodness.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Qt File Managers
This article focus on the finest Qt file managers. We include the best free and open source software written with this toolkit.
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RHVoice – multilingual speech synthesizer
RHVoice is a multilingual speech synthesizer. The aim is to give visually impaired people access to a synthesis voice with a screen reader.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Graphical XMPP Clients
Here’s our recommended graphical XMPP clients. They are free and open source goodness.
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Gespeaker – GTK frontend for eSpeak
Gespeaker is a GTK-based frontend for eSpeak. Like eSpeak, Gespeaker is free and open source software.
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Great Open Source Collaborative Editing Tools
This article highlights our favourite free and open source tools to collaborate on documents in real time.
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Back in Time – simple backup tool
Back In Time is a simple backup tool taking inspiration from FlyBack and TimeVault, both in turn inspired by Apple’s Time Machine.
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6 Best Free and Open Source XMPP Servers
XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. We select the best servers.
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