The EU Killed Voluntary CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying To Compel It. Both Cause Problems.
Last week, the European Parliament voted to let a temporary exemption lapse that had allowed tech companies to scan their services for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without running afoul of st…
Scanning my own film
Since I got the F5, I've unsurprisingly been shooting more film. I just shot a roll of Cinestill, which is motion picture film that they've done something to so you can shoot it in a film camera and develop it C41, which is the standard developing process for color film since forever. Cinestill has some troubling corporate tendencies. I am not dismissing these, but when I bought the roll of film I was not really aware of them. I'm probably not going to shoot any more of their film, but I am […]
If you need to regularly scan and archive documents and prefer CLI based workflows, then Arkivisto may be for you: https://github.com/dbrgn/arkivisto/
Hey, it turns out that GNOME's "Document Scanner" application (Simple Scan) actually _can_ do Optical Character Recognition, running a post-processing script. It's just really, really, really not obvious (nor easy to set up): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/1#note_2713733
As a stopgap, here's my proposed UI lipstick fix just so that the existing UI's purpose can be understood: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/merge_requests/322
I'm hoping to see a built-in implementation someday.
#SimpleScan #OCR #scanning #productivity #GNOME #UX #OCRmyPDF
Another newcomer-friendly UX papercut enhancement idea for GNOME's "Document Scanner" (Simple Scan) app: providing the page cropping aspect ratio presets directly as a split menubutton for the cropping action in the toolbar: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/553
Finally realized what has been bugging me for years with the GNOME "Document Scanner" (Simple Scan) app's cropping feature: it doesn't set the mouse cursors to indicate where and how you can interact to adjust the cropping rectangle.
I filed this issue with some hints, so that any newcomer can contribute a fix for it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/552
(BTW, there's a similar papercut in GNOME Calendar: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/963)
#UX #usability #GNOME #SimpleScan #SANE #scanning #paperwork #GNOMECalendar
When I went to the IHOP website some time last year, the menu was fully accessible. Then, they changed it, and I had to use an old version from the Way Back Machine. Now, I went to the modern site again, and they are still inaccessible. After searching several sites, I finally found one that had the pdf. But I would need to open my Windows 7 virtual machine, open Openbook (ocr scanning software), load the pdf, convert it, and only then could I start reading the actual menu. Of course, I would also need to use the find command to get to the various sections, since it's not html and I can't just click on a link or go to the various headings, so that would take more time (usually, the last doesn't bother me, but it just adds more inconvenience here). So I just settled for a sampler, because my parents don't have all day to either read the menu and have me choose, or sit and wait for me to do all of the above. This whole thing took only a few minutes when the actual site was accessible. Am I missing something here, perhaps with using NVDA?
#accessibility #annoying #blind #blindness #computer #Ihop #menus #NVDA #ocr #scanning #technology #Windows
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