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Category: Utilities

OCR-Systems

10 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.

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Documents

facad is a modern colorful directory listing tool

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

facad is a modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line. It’s written in C.

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Selection of utilities

svu is a small helper for release scripts and workflows

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

svu provides utility commands and functions to increase specific portions of the version.

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Find

concurrently lets you run multiple commands concurrently

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

concurrently is similar to the command npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less but better.

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System administration

ddrescueview examines ddrescue’s mapfiles

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ddrescueview is a small tool that allows users to graphically examine ddrescue’s mapfiles in a user friendly GUI application.

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Password Managers

kpcli is a command line interface to KeePass database files

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kpcli is a command line interface (interactive shell) to work with KeePass 1.x or 2.x database files.

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Essential-Utilities

entr – Event Notify Test Runner

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

entr is a utility that runs arbitrary commands when files change.

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mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel and shows output of each command separately.

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sesh is a smart terminal session manager

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sesh is a CLI that helps you create and manage tmux sessions quickly and easily using zoxide.

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Font Tools

nerdfix fixes obsolete Nerd Font icons

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

nerdfix helps you to find/fix obsolete Nerd Font icons in your project.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

openapi-tui lists, browses and runs APIs

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

openapi-tui is a terminal UI to list, browse and run APIs defined with OpenAPI v3.0 and v3.1 spec.

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JSON Tools

jnv navigates JSON offering a viewer and filter editor

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jnv is designed for navigating JSON, offering an interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mult runs a command multiple times

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mult lets you run a command multiple times and glance at the outputs via a TUI.

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Selection of utilities

gowatch builds and restarts go projects

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gowatch is a command line tool that builds and (re)starts your go project every time you save a Go or template file.

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Selection of utilities

air is a live-reloading utility for developing Go applications

March 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Run air in your project root directory, leave it alone, and focus on your code.

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Font Tools

8 Best Free and Open Source Font Viewers

March 26, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights useful tools to view your fonts. We only feature free and open source software in this article.

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PAR Scrape is a web scraping tool

March 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

PAR Scrape is a versatile web scraping tool with options for Selenium or Playwright, featuring AI-powered data extraction and formatting.

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Documentation

w2vgrep is a semantic grep tool

March 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

w2vgrep is a command-line tool that performs semantic searches on text input using word embeddings.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: find

March 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to find.

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Find

scooter is an interactive find-and-replace terminal UI app

March 24, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

scooter is written in Rust.

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