[Ship Shape | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38249214) [Ship Shape - Canva Engineering Blog](https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/ship-shape/) [Portable EPUBs | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138042) [Portable EPUBs](https://web.archive.org/web/20240223084047/https://willcrichton.net/notes/portable-epubs/) [Laurence Anthony's Picture Vocabulary Size Test (PVST)](https://laurenceanthony.net/software/pvst) [Making a PDF that's larger than Germany | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39210507) [Making a PDF that's larger than Germany - alexwlchan](https://alexwlchan.net/2024/big-pdf/) [Coding My Handwriting | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408291) [Coding my Handwriting — Amy Goodchild](https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascript) ## ocr pile [TEXTFAIRY](https://github.com/renard314/textfairy) an OCR app [Free OCR](https://www.free-ocr.com/) the tool extracts text from images which can then be put into Google translate or searched on other mapping resources. [i2OCR](https://www.i2ocr.com/) [Translate images online in 40+ languages | ImageTranslate](https://www.imagetranslate.com/) [iSolid apps - for iPhone/iPad/Mac/Apple Watch](https://www.isolid.be/) [SimpleOCR](https://www.simpleocr.com/) [GitHub - zacharywhitley/awesome-ocr](https://github.com/zacharywhitley/awesome-ocr) [GitHub - weihaox/awesome-image-translation: A collection of awesome resources image-to-image translation.](https://github.com/weihaox/awesome-image-translation) [Easy Screen OCR The Best Screenshot OCR and Translator](https://easyscreenocr.com/) Best Screen OCR software that enables you to extract text from screenshots and images on Windows/Mac/Online/iOS/Android. Support 100 OCR languages. [Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877391) [Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in your browser](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/30/ocr-pdfs-images/) [How to make a raw scan e-book using FineReader](http://ebooks.byethost6.com/scanning_howto.htm?i=1) [How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844943) [how do you ocr on a mac using the cli or just python for free | the greg technology blog](https://blog.greg.technology/2024/01/02/how-do-you-ocr-on-a-mac.html) [Detexify](http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html) Handwritten LaTeX Symbol Recognition [Project Naptha](https://projectnaptha.com/) [ProjectNaptha](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/project-naptha/molncoemjfmpgdkbdlbjmhlcgniigdnf) Image to Text Translator Manipulate Browser Image Text [Image to Braille](https://505e06b2.github.io/Image-to-Braille/) Convert Images to Braille [GitHub - dynobo/normcap: OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images](https://github.com/dynobo/normcap) [Screenotate: Recognize text in your screenshots](https://screenotate.com/) [GitHub - SubhamTyagi/android-ocr: Tesseract based OCR for android](https://github.com/SubhamTyagi/android-ocr) [F-Droid](https://www.f-droid.org/app/io.github.subhamtyagi.ocr) [Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042626) [From: Hans Reiser (architect of ReiserFS V3 + Reiser4)](https://ftp.mfek.org/Reiser/Letters/%E2%84%962%20Hans%E2%86%92Fred/reiser_response.html) [WindowTextExtractor](https://github.com/AlexanderPro/WindowTextExtractor) Extract Text From Any Window [GitHub - aheze/OpenFind: An app to find text in real life.](https://github.com/aheze/OpenFind) Text search for images [OpenFind: Find Ingredients Fast](https://open.getfind.app/) [How to Scan Images and Perform Text Recognition in SwiftUI Using VisionKit](https://www.appcoda.com/swiftui-text-recognition/) Text recognition [Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41203306) [Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr: Enhance Tesseract OCR output for scanned PDFs by applying Large Language Model (LLM) corrections.](https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr) ## QR [GitHub - make-github-pseudonymous-again/awesome-qr-code: A curated list of awesome QR code libraries, software and resources](https://github.com/make-github-pseudonymous-again/awesome-qr-code) [Make a QR code](https://qr-code-generator-clp.glitch.me/) [Reading QR codes without a computer | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087752) [Reading QR codes without a computer!](https://qr.blinry.org/) [Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36218281) [Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion | Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/redditor-creates-working-anime-qr-codes-using-stable-diffusion/) [Guest WiFi using a QR code | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32069926) [John Graham-Cumming's blog: Guest WiFi using a QR code](https://blog.jgc.org/2022/07/guest-wifi-using-qr-code.html) [What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27589913) [gir.st - What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?](https://gir.st/blog/greenpass.html) [10 > 64, in QR Codes | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39894148) [10 > 64, in QR codes | Huon on the internet](https://huonw.github.io/blog/2024/03/qr-base10-base64/) [wikiHow](https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-QR-Code-to-Share-Your-WiFi-Password) (2018) How to Make a QR Code to Share Your WiFi Password. ## scanners [NAPS2 - Scan documents to PDF and more](https://www.naps2.com/) [FEED WATCHER](https://github.com/zouroboros/feed-watcher) a feed scanner app for android [NAPS2 - Scan documents to PDF and more](https://www.naps2.com/) [Betcalsa](https://github.com/emredurukn/betcalsa) Document scanner, automatically detect your document and enhance the scans with black-and-white filter [Scan Now](https://github.com/WezSieTato/ScanNow) Fast and simple document scanning [DIY Book Scanner](https://www.diybookscanner.org/) [A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41167899) [A Better Light Source For Scanning Color Negative Film | A Better Light Source For Scanning Color Negative Film](https://jackw01.github.io/scanlight/) ## UUID [Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37733036) [Goodbye to sequential integers, hello UUIDv7!](https://buildkite.com/blog/goodbye-integers-hello-uuids) [How to Effectively Manage Unique Identifiers at Scale: From GUIDs to Snowflake IDs and Other Modern Solutions](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-effectively-manage-unique-identifiers-at-scale/) [TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41350225) [TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them | nicole@web](https://ntietz.com/blog/til-uses-for-the-different-uuid-versions/)