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Dark color scheme on non-uniform light background. The LS_COLORS environment variable determines file colors during directory listings (ls colors, get it?). LS_COLORS is used to set a file's listing color based on a pattern match to the file name. The default file colors are set by the utility dirc...

Master PDF Editor (free edition): Winner It's quite amazing. It uses tesseract behind the scenes to perform the OCR (like everybody else) but it has proper controls and automatic language installation, everything in the right place and working . I loaded my large PDF file, selected Document->OCR, i...

This particular topic is once again, not really a science topic, but sciency . I need to OCR a bunch of things, and OCR software in general has been pretty bad throughout the years. And Linux OCR software is bad squared. A number of software packages (possibly all of them) are trying to be front end...

Fiji (AKA ImageJ) scientific image manipulation software is a mess, a wreck internally, yet everyone uses it because it's free, and because there aren't many alternatives that actually work for scientific/quantitative work. Most of its plugins are abandonware written by college students. I've been ...

I'm going to describe my favorite way of thinking about programming languages. It's helped clarify things for me, and hopefully will be adopted by the larger programming community. People need to rate programming languages. And the rating scale that normally gets applied is based on attributes such...