“Hi! Your OS here! See that red badge demanding your attention?”
"What is it?”
"It's sports news! Isn't that great?”
"I don't give a shit about sports. How do I turn it off?”
"If you're not interested in sports, you can customize the alerts to show something you ARE interested in.”
"I'm interested in an OS that does what I tell it. One that works for me. That doesn't track me or try to ‘maximize engagement’ or sell me crap or nag me about using AI or whatever. Got anything for that?”
“…”
@angusm
That's no easy life. :(
I am happy for not having such dependencies.
@khzimmer2 @angusm in that case I'm fairly confident you don't scan a lot of documents that require good OCR and good document compression. I run a Windows VM for the sole purpose of servicing a Brother ADS-1200 scanner.
Every single alternative I've looked at has less accurate OCR, _and_ generates PDF's over twice the size of Brother's otherwise atrocious software.
If you look up Open Source Zealot in any reputable source you'll find my picture to illustrate the entry. It's just a tough nut to crack. I sank serious money and time in this topic and just never found a way of improving scanning under UNIX-like OSes beyond the level of scanning using the Brother ADS-1700, which sucks as bad under Windows as it does under Linux. It's not as if Windows or Brother are the magic bullet.
I'd love the idea of open source leapfrogging the software for the ADS-1200, but there will be tons of isolated use cases that don't lend themselves to easy solutions.
Thanks for your report, I understand the problem.
Yes, you're right, I rarely need OCR, and when I do it's no big deal to manually fix some errors in the resulting one or two pages.
Angus McIntyre
Karl-Heinz Zimmer
Bert Driehuis