
Bat
fzf
Starship (Shell Prompt)
Micro
tmux
lf (file manager)
exa app
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.

Capture2text
KanjiTomo
TextSniper
Textify
Q-Dir
ABBYY Screenshot Reader
Easy Screen OCR
Program to recognize text on screen
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Based on our record, fd seems to be a lot more popular than dpScreenOCR. While we know about 130 links to fd, we've tracked only 4 mentions of dpScreenOCR.
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fd is recommended for developers, system administrators, and power users who often search through directories and require a fast, efficient tool with a shorter learning curve.
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Fast-glob was the Package Killer target, but it was not the only comparison worth making. Developers often reach for fd or ripgrep when they need to locate files from a terminal. They are mature native tools with excellent defaults, so... - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
> Find works, but the syntax is arcane. Fd is a lifesaver: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
I know that if you want `fd` (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) you need to `apt install fd-find` and which installs the binary `fdfind` (!). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Use this: https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/ I set it on Ctrl+Q shortcut. It takes screenshot and transcribe text from the image. The text is automatically copied to clipboard for you. Its English OCR is top-notched. Its other... Source: over 3 years ago
I use dpScreenOCR but I replace the included Tesseract trained data by the tessdata_best repo. Source: over 3 years ago
You may want to start more simply by helping dpscreenocr work on Wayland: https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/ ,. Source: about 4 years ago
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Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! Shows the information you need, while staying sleek and minimal. Quick installation available for Bash, Fish, ZSH, Ion, and Powershell.
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