Re: extracting text from png files

2018-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Okular is the PDF (ebook, documents and similar) viewer of KDE > Am 18.12.2018 um 20:10 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion > : > > And this is one of the reasons I hate acronyms, so easy to mix up > words with related meanings and the same first letter. Probably > doesn't help that, I t

Re: extracting text from png files

2018-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
And this is one of the reasons I hate acronyms, so easy to mix up words with related meanings and the same first letter. Probably doesn't help that, I think it's KDE's gui application for OCR that's called Okular or something similar, and switch optical to ocular in a Google search reduces the numb

Re: extracting text from png files

2018-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
OK, this is a nit, but the O in OCR stands for "Optical," not "Ocular." It's about the process based on vision, not on the organ that is sensitive to light. Machines don't have eyes, biological beings have eyes. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > What you're looking for is Ocular Chara

Re: Newbie to linux and a question

2018-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Don't worry, this list has everything from people dipping their toes in Linux for the first time to veterans who remember when GUIs were the new fad, and I'd estimate the majority of the list's activity is asking for blind-friendly ways of accomplishing a task or getting braille and/or speech up an

Re: Newbie to linux and a question

2018-12-18 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi Jeff! That was very well explained. Thanks for that one. I am not a newbie but am not using the linux OS as much as i maybe wanted. THis i guess is because I am so lazie and feel a bit stupid if i ask something. I began 2 decades ago with Linux and way back then there was mostly command line us