ScanTailor Reviews

iTerm2 Reviews

1. KateBlanc

   4 months ago
   Useful

   I've had so many problems with terminal in my Mac.. thanks for this tool. It's like really useful

   👍 Pros:    Fast|Convenience|Fastest, safest, and cheapest

   👎 Cons:    None

ScanTailor mentions (9)

• Z-Library to Let Users Share Physical Books

  There's also https://scantailor.org/ (and a maintained fork at https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced ) which semi-automates unwarping and other corrective tasks in scanned books. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Is there a way to convert "photographed text" in to just "text" in a .pdf file?

  Scantailor (https://scantailor.org) is the tool for self-scanned books that exist in images (png, jpg, etc). However, I usually use Irfanview with PDF plugin (https://irfanview.com - download both Irfanview and the Plugins from this home page) I have elsewhere in r/PDF shown how you can do batch splitting of two-page scans, clean up muddy pages (yellowed or browned) . In the Reddit search box, search for... Source: over 1 year ago

• Is anyone backing up/reploading Archive.org's scanned books to Libgen, etc.?

  Scantailor https://scantailor.org/ might be useful. Source: over 1 year ago

• Where do you BUY your ebooks from?

  Scantailor is a good open source option that has a lot of features centered towards this process. Source: over 1 year ago

• OCRmyPDF: Add an OCR text layer to scanned PDF file

  I use OCRmyPDF on a regular basis to OCR journal articles my library sends me. I've found it works great on English but (with appropriate language packs installed) works poorly on Greek and Hebrew. It also makes no effort to understand the layout of pages (e.g., tables). The project is fantastic, though. I've often considered building a web frontend that cleans up PDFs and then OCRs them using OCRmyPDF. For... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

iTerm2 mentions (105)

• Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

  iTerm2[2] and I'm astonished there's less mention of it on this thread (though there is some). That is mainly because I switched mostly to Linux a few years ago, and you'd think the lack of a good terminal app wouldn't be the biggest pain point of switching from Mac to Linux, but it absolutely is. There's no terminal app on Linux even close to as good as iTerm2. [2]: https://iterm2.com/ but it's v3 tho... - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

  * Homebrew - Package manager (kinda like apt/rpm on Linux). * Secretive - Stores SSH keys in the secure enclave [https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive] * Hazel - File automations [https://www.noodlesoft.com/] * Arq - Excellent backup software for local and/or remote backups [https://arqbackup.com/] * ChronoSync - File synchronization on steoroids [https://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html] *... - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

  Alfred - Productivity App for macOS [1] iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement [2] Dropshare App - upload anything anywhere on macOS [3] Mimestream - A native macOS email client for Gmail [4] Things - To-Do List for Mac & iOS [5] [1] https://www.alfredapp.com [2] https://iterm2.com [3] https://dropshare.app [4] https://mimestream.com [5] https://culturedcode.com/things. - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• Leveraging Wasp for full-stack development

  A modern terminal shell such as zsh, iTerm2 with oh-my-zsh for Mac, or Hyper for Windows. - Source: dev.to / 27 days ago

• Ditch Your Boring Terminal and Make it More Useful

  Iterm2 is a terminal emulator for macOS. It’s kind of a replacement for your original terminal. It comes with a bunch of cool features and customizations that we will go over later. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago