Plasma 6.6 is now live!
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@kde "Speaking of accessibility, Spectacle can now recognize and extract text from images it scans. Among other use cases, this makes it easy to write alt texts for visually-impaired users"
I love it!
@kde@floss.social @catraxx@tech.lgbt oh my lazy-ass will love this update
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@kde@floss.social @catraxx@tech.lgbt oh my lazy-ass will love this update
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Plasma 6.6 is now live!
In Plasma 6.6, Spectacle can read texts from screenshots; we trial-run our very own on-screen keyboard for touchscreens; and we have a new first-time wizard that let's users configure their passwords, timezones, keyboard and networks, on preinstalled systems; among many, many more marvelous things.
@kde@floss.social where's all that collected data going to?
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Plasma 6.6 is now live!
In Plasma 6.6, Spectacle can read texts from screenshots; we trial-run our very own on-screen keyboard for touchscreens; and we have a new first-time wizard that let's users configure their passwords, timezones, keyboard and networks, on preinstalled systems; among many, many more marvelous things.
Also don't forget the new feature that allows you to turn whatever modifications you have done to the looks of your desktop into a global theme.
Or how you can change the intensity of a window's frames; or...
So much to pick from
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Plasma 6.6 is now live!
In Plasma 6.6, Spectacle can read texts from screenshots; we trial-run our very own on-screen keyboard for touchscreens; and we have a new first-time wizard that let's users configure their passwords, timezones, keyboard and networks, on preinstalled systems; among many, many more marvelous things.
@kde spectacle OCR?? LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO
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Plasma 6.6 is now live!
In Plasma 6.6, Spectacle can read texts from screenshots; we trial-run our very own on-screen keyboard for touchscreens; and we have a new first-time wizard that let's users configure their passwords, timezones, keyboard and networks, on preinstalled systems; among many, many more marvelous things.
@kde This is a fully offline OCR method, right?
The "frame intensity" setting is a very much needed thing though I'll admit.
EDIT: Looks like it is entirely local. Great!
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@kde@floss.social where's all that collected data going to?
@gjersey999 @kde You mean the OCR? I'd like to verify about this too, but presumably it's an offline standard OCR method. Hopefully. Since it's primarily for text being rendered within the same computer and thus digital accuracy of digital fonts, it probably doesn't require much to do an OCR and even simpler/older methods likely work well without having to resort to "AI" "vision" methods.
Or so I hope (but still would like to see confirmation.)
EDIT: Someone says they looked at the code and it's local OCR via a long time developed OCR model.
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Plasma 6.6 is now live!
In Plasma 6.6, Spectacle can read texts from screenshots; we trial-run our very own on-screen keyboard for touchscreens; and we have a new first-time wizard that let's users configure their passwords, timezones, keyboard and networks, on preinstalled systems; among many, many more marvelous things.
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@kde This is a fully offline OCR method, right?
The "frame intensity" setting is a very much needed thing though I'll admit.
EDIT: Looks like it is entirely local. Great!
@nazokiyoubinbou @kde Yes OCR is completely local, Spectacle is using a local installation of tesseract-ocr
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Plasma 6.6 is now live!
In Plasma 6.6, Spectacle can read texts from screenshots; we trial-run our very own on-screen keyboard for touchscreens; and we have a new first-time wizard that let's users configure their passwords, timezones, keyboard and networks, on preinstalled systems; among many, many more marvelous things.
@kde Is there proper dictation support?
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@gjersey999 @kde You mean the OCR? I'd like to verify about this too, but presumably it's an offline standard OCR method. Hopefully. Since it's primarily for text being rendered within the same computer and thus digital accuracy of digital fonts, it probably doesn't require much to do an OCR and even simpler/older methods likely work well without having to resort to "AI" "vision" methods.
Or so I hope (but still would like to see confirmation.)
EDIT: Someone says they looked at the code and it's local OCR via a long time developed OCR model.
Correct—Tesseract, a project started in the 1980s (!):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)
And, yes, it operates exclusively offline.
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Correct—Tesseract, a project started in the 1980s (!):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)
And, yes, it operates exclusively offline.
@kde @gjersey999 Yeah, Tesseract is solid. Thanks for the official confirmation.
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