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OCR Tools

Machine Learning in Linux: EasyOCR – OCR that reads natural scene text and dense text in documents

February 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images.

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hihat – minimalist offline music player

February 19, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

hihat is software that’s billed as a minimalistic offline music player.

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Emborg – Front-End to BorgBackup

February 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

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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Machine Learning in Linux: Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition

February 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

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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Speech

Machine Learning in Linux: TTS – deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech

February 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

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

February 13, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Delta Chat is a chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt.

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Speech

Machine Learning in Linux: Tortoise TTS – text-to-speech program

February 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Tortoise TTS is a multi-voice text-to-speech system trained with an emphasis on quality.

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Recording Studio

Blue Recorder – simple screen recorder written in Rust

February 9, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.

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fooyin

fooyin v0.3.7 – customisable music player

February 8, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Here’s our updated review of fooyin. We’re looking at v0.3.7.

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Think outside the box

explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text

February 7, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

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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