Reading filesystem is not about which distribution you have but drivers on disc. If you have FAT the defaults should work, for NTFS you might have to install the ntfs driver. I don’t use mint but it’s the linux way so either it’s already there or you can install it. Once you have driver just mount it like a normal drive and it’s done.
For the OCR, have you tried tesseract? For printed documents it can take image input and generate a pdf with selectable text. I don’t OCR much but it has been useful when I tried a few times.
You might be able to have a script that takes the scanner input into tesseract and output a pdf. It only works on a single image per run so I had to make script to run it on whole pdf by separating it and stitching it back together.
I have a dumb work related chrome thing, i’d like to make it so that when a certain notification sound plays in chromium, my computer does a few things automatically for me...
Someone already talked about the XY problem, so I’ll say this.
Why sound notification instead of notification content? If your notification program (dunst in my case) have pattern matching or calling scripts based on patterns and the script has access to which app, notification title, contents etc. then it’s just about calling something in your bash script.
And any time you wanna add that functionality to something else, add one more line with a different pattern or add a condition in your script. Comparing text is lot more reliable than audio.
Of course your use case could be completely different, so maybe give some examples of use case so people can give you different ways to solve that instead of just the one you’re thinking of.
I took several photos of a drawing that a friend had made, but the quality of the photos is not very good, so I need software that can produce enhanced images by combining a stack of images of the same scene that were taken during a short period of time.
I was thinking the same, smartphones would definitely do everything it can to make images sharp so it’s probably not going to be easily stackable.
Still it feels like something should be there to combine the pictures to make better drawing, as there’re softwares to generate 3D models from smartphone pictures.
With modern CPU’s supposedly shipping with ‘AI cores’: How long do you think it will take for a proper opensource, privacy respecting productivity tools(Something like whatever M$ copilot is supposed to be?) to be available?...
Not for handwritten text, but for printed fonts, getting OCR is as easy as just making a box in screen with current technology. So I don’t think we need AI things for that.
Personally I use tesseract. I have a simple bash script that when run let’s me select a rectangle in screen, save that image and run OCR in a temp folder and copy that text to clipboard. Done.
Edit: for extra flavor you can also use notify-send to send that text over a notification so you know what the OCR produced without having to paste it.
About the malware thing. Won’t the Linux use increasing in organizations give incentive for attackers to make malwares targeting linux? It’s not like we’re malware free, it’s just that average user is informed enough and there is low use of linux making it not worth as much to target desktop users.
Windows is hell, i need to do something
Yo linux team, i would love some advice....
Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Does anyone know how to execute a script when a certain sound plays?
I have a dumb work related chrome thing, i’d like to make it so that when a certain notification sound plays in chromium, my computer does a few things automatically for me...
Reconstruction of an image from a stack of images
I took several photos of a drawing that a friend had made, but the quality of the photos is not very good, so I need software that can produce enhanced images by combining a stack of images of the same scene that were taken during a short period of time.
How often do you contribute to open source projects?
Passive OCR and other 'AI' tools on the Linux desktop
With modern CPU’s supposedly shipping with ‘AI cores’: How long do you think it will take for a proper opensource, privacy respecting productivity tools(Something like whatever M$ copilot is supposed to be?) to be available?...
Are there any studies done on how much linux can save governments money if they do a whole migration?