Re:Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
by joyj2nd on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:50AM
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1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back).
Will check it out. For PDFs I mostly use Master PDF Editor
2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work
For me LibreOffice is a bad nightmare. I use the commercial Softmaker.
6. pdfsandwich and Tesseract OCR for OCR/turning PDFs into searchable files
Good luck with that. My results with Tesseract were always abysmal. I use ABBYY Finereader with wine. I would pay for a native Linux version. They have a Linux command line tool that has a biblical price tag.
12. Inkscape for messing around with vector graphics
Inkscape is good. I wish they would still develop Xara XL
What I am missing in your List:
Recoll. Find Stuff on your computer. One of my most important tools.
Will check it out. For PDFs I mostly use Master PDF Editor
2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work
For me LibreOffice is a bad nightmare. I use the commercial Softmaker.
6. pdfsandwich and Tesseract OCR for OCR/turning PDFs into searchable files
Good luck with that. My results with Tesseract were always abysmal. I use ABBYY Finereader with wine. I would pay for a native Linux version. They have a Linux command line tool that has a biblical price tag.
12. Inkscape for messing around with vector graphics
Inkscape is good. I wish they would still develop Xara XL
What I am missing in your List:
Recoll. Find Stuff on your computer. One of my most important tools.