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   by pronoiac 4y ago

   I checked: jbig2 is used in ocrmypdf, set to lossless by default. It reduced my book size by 20%.
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   by pronoiac 4y ago

   Also, CHDK: https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK . While it's some Canon cameras, not all, it's many more than supported by what's in the article.
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   by pronoiac 4y ago

   Hi all! I'm not the author, but I'm part of the effort to turn PAIP from a scanned pdf into a lot of markdown.
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   by pronoiac 4y ago

   I'm not the OP, but a past employer used it on some legacy systems. It makes some choices, like avoiding spinning up new processes, that feel like it's been optimized for embedded systems. It uses a new-to-me language, that we nev
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   by pronoiac 4y ago

   Mobile Safari's limit is 500 tabs, including on the iPad. When you then try to open another tab, the options are: * close tabs not opened in the past month * close all tabs * cancel It's not a big dialog box. If you misclick &quot
6. 126.▲
   by pronoiac 4y ago

   Huh. Choosing a book at somewhat random - Mike by P.G. Wodehouse - neither the compatible or advanced (experimental?) epubs are working terribly well in Bluefire Reader on my iPad. I might poke at this with Calibre. Or if there are recommen
7. 127.▲
   by pronoiac 4y ago

   I couldn't reproduce, but I note the background image changes on reloads. Perhaps beej is hotlinking, and one of the images is based on cnet, who redirected to themselves?
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   by pronoiac 4y ago

   I hadn't heard of scantools! Do you have anything to say about it? Why you chose it, features, etc.?
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   by pronoiac 4y ago

   I went looking for a similar comparison a few months ago, and saw this: https://research.aimultiple.com/ocr-accuracy/ It compared ABBYY FineReader 15, Amazon Textract, Google Cloud Platform Vision API, Microsoft Azure
10. 130.▲
    by pronoiac 4y ago

    I think two would cover it: * an uptime checker, in a container, running against however many services or sites * uptime robot or whatever, against the local uptime checker
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    Do they edit the pdfs, or do they index them so you can search? OCRmyPDF does the first, so it's usable elsewhere; glancing around, it looks like Dropbox does the second, which can't be saved for use elsewhere.
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    I think I looked at using Google Drive for OCR, but it was limited to 2 meg files or only a few pages or something? I had a lot of higher resolution pages (1k pages, 300 or 600dpi), so this was a non-starter for me.
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    I recently used this! Some other useful features: * adjusting metadata, like author and title * recompressing the scans with lossless JBIG2, which led to a smaller pdf by 20% or so
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    50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon (Book)(kickstarter.com)

    3 points by pronoiac 4y ago|0 comments
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    Torrent seedboxes might also be useful, as they prioritize bandwidth and (maybe?) disk space. I'm not sure if they'd be more or less secure than the typical VPS hosting, though, and I'd default to pessimism.
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    You'd probably enjoy this other discussion on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31990836
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    As noted in a sibling comment, you should check out the --checkout / -c option. Specifically, replace: 1. rsync -acv src/ dest/ It will be much slower - using lots of cpu and disk access - but more thorough.
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    It isn't clear from the conversation so far: do you use "--checksum"?
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    Huh, Mobile Safari reported 54.
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    Sorry, I didn't mean "the iso was mangled in transit," I meant "they appear to not understand iso." The iso checksum verified without issue. Looking into it a bit, this might have something to do with UEFI firmware
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    > The only other explanation I have is that their direct download iso was corrupt I definitely got this impression, after a 2 or 4 gig boundary was crossed. I think I tried a Raspberry Pi to rule out a Mac issue. I had success with ht
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    I've been working on turning a pretty massive scanned book into a git repo of markdown files, with multiple collaborators. Using sentence-per-line has been useful (compared to line-per-paragraph) because, even with / despite --wor
23. 143.▲
    by pronoiac 4y ago

    It looks more like vnc or Remote Desktop than, say, something you could use to configure bios settings or other stuff at boot.
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    Note that The TinyPilot hit the front page with its own post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31549368
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    Nifty! This was mentioned in the "Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server" article that was on the front page earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31548829 (I want this, now I just have to find a Raspberry P
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    I'm fairly happy with my 4-bay Synology NAS. When I last looked at ZFS, it seemed that piecemeal upgrades - like, upgrade a 4TB drive to 8TB, and get more available space - wouldn't work in ZFS, but it would in SHR, at least if yo
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    A brief "what is marginalia.nu" section would be awesome!
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    Also, ddrescue is in Ubuntu, as gddrescue.
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    I'd suggest the Greaseweazle, which lets you use a PC and PC drive. https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle I haven't tested this, it's on my to do list.
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    by pronoiac 4y ago

    I think it's treating the phone screen as a touchpad, not moving the phone like a mouse - https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Virtual_Input