An office suite is a collection of productivity software usually containing a word processor, spreadsheet and a presentation program. Here’s our open source recommendations.
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Category: Office
Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Office Software – Week 6
This week I’m summarizing my experiences of another fundamental desktop activity: running an office suite.
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10 Best Free Linux Document Management Systems (Updated 2019)
Document Management is an information technology that has taken over from legacy systems of manual or server based file sharing, the electronic filing cabinet, to control policies and procedures. It is one of the functions provided by Enterprise Content Management.
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Excellent Utilities: Tusk – Evernote desktop software
Tusk is billed as a feature-laden, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app used by people in more than 140 countries. Let’s put it this application through its paces, and why it warrants inclusion in our “Excellent Utilities” series.
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Real Linux Desktop Experience with X410 and WSL?
X410 is an X Window server for Windows 10. When you want to use X Window GUI apps on remote servers, simply run X410 and connect to your server via SSH with X11 forwarding. Here’s our review of X410 using ‘The Windows Subsystem for Linux’.
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10 Free Capable Linux PDF Viewers
The PDF file format is one of the most common file formats in use today. This article recommends the best open source PDF viewers.
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11 Best Free Linux Data Mining Software
Data mining (also known as knowledge discovery) is the process of gathering large amounts of valid information, analyzing that information and condensing it into meaningful data.
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9 Best Free Linux Business Intelligence Software
A business intelligence platform includes three layers: a database layer, a business intelligence layer, and an analytics/performance management layer. Here’s our roundup of the best business intelligence software, all available under open source licenses.
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9 Useful PDF Manipulation Tools
In this Group Test we review 9 small tools that manipulate PDF files in some way or another. All of the tools are published under an open source license.
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