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scantpaper – scan documents to PDF or DjVu

September 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

scantpaper is a GTK application for scanning, editing and converting documents to PDF, DjVu and other formats with OCR support.

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Voice Recognition

Speech Note – note taking, reading and translating

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Speech Note works with spoken and written material using local speech recognition, speech synthesis and machine translation.

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Voice Recognition

aTrain – automatically transcribe recorded speech

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

aTrain is a graphical application to transcribe recorded speech while keeping source audio and resulting text on the user’s own computer.

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ZFontManager – cross-platform font manager

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ZFontManager is a cross-platform font manager for previewing, organising, installing and controlling fonts.

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Project Management

Schedule – kanban-style planner

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Schedule is a kanban-style planner designed to help organise tasks and activities across a series of customisable columns.

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Photo Metadata

FerrumPix – desktop photo manager and image editor

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

FerrumPix is a desktop photo manager and image editor for Linux and Windows.

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K’uychi – generate colour palettes from a base tone

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

K’uychi is a GNOME colour palette generator that creates perceptually uniform lighter and darker shades and copies their hexadecimal values.

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QR Tools

Barcoder – barcode and QR code generator

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Barcoder is a GTK barcode and QR code generator supporting common 1D formats, QR and Aztec codes, with bitmap and vector export.

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QR Tools

Kodaskanna – multi-format 1D/2D code scanner

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Kodaskanna is a KDE utility for reading QR codes and other 1D/2D barcodes from images, with clipboard, file and desktop integration.

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Photo collection

Lap – local-first desktop photo manager

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Lap is a local-first desktop photo manager designed for browsing, organising and managing large personal media libraries.

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Color Picker for COSMIC – color utility for COSMIC desktop

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Color Picker for COSMIC is a native colour picker supporting six colour spaces, screen sampling, HEX editing, graphs and clipboard copying.

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Polyphone – powerful SoundFont editor

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Polyphone is a graphical SoundFont editor for creating and editing sampled instruments with SF2, SF3, SFZ and sfArk support on Linux.

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plotting-software

KmPlot – mathematical function plotter

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

KmPlot is a mathematical function plotter that can draw graphs of functions together with their integrals and derivatives.

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Screen Capture

xfce4-screenshooter – take screenshots

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

xfce4-screenshooter is an application for taking screenshots.

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Cherrypick – modern screen color picker

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Cherrypick is a modern GTK4 color picker for sampling screen colours, previewing clipboard values, and copying RGB, HEX, HSL and CMYK codes.

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Astronomy

FIPS – OpenGL-based FITS image viewer

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

FIPS is an OpenGL-accelerated FITS image viewer offering responsive zooming, panning, level adjustment and broad 2D FITS support.

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bited – bitmap font designer and editor

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

bited is a bitmap font designer and editor focused on monochrome Unicode BDF fonts. It provides a graphical environment.

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3D Illustration

Laigter – generate lighting maps for 2D game artwork

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Laigter generates normal, parallax, specular and occlusion maps from 2D artwork, with real-time lighting previews, presets and batchable CLI use.

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Satellite Tool

SatX – live 3D satellite and space debris tracker

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

SatX is a desktop satellite tracker that visualises artificial satellites and space debris on an interactive 3D globe.

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3d render

Gaffer – node-based VFX look development and production application

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Gaffer is a node-based VFX application for look development, lighting, scene assembly, rendering, compositing and production automation.

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