[ubuntu-studio-users] (A) Add graphics/scan packages: Scantailor; Tesseract; DjVu Libre; pdftk, (B) LibreOffice Calc, and (C) mail-list archives search

[RW Jones]

Keywords: graphics; document scanning; Scantailor Advanced; Tesseract-ocr; 
DjVuLibre; pdftk; LibreOffice Calc; default packages; mail-list search


I'm now subscribed to the list and was briefly surveying Ubuntu Studio as 
a possible Linux flavour for a dual-boot with Windows 7 and/or 10 laptops.

Main interest graphics: scanning / post-scan processing.


(A) Base package additions?
Just wondered if there is any appetite for adding to the basic Ubuntu Studio 
main distribution or Ubuntu Studio Installer for use with eg Xubuntu the 
following scan post-processing tools (e.g. optical character recognition; 
cleaning up scanned images; DjVu and pdftk tools) which I've used for some 
years under MS Windows - Studio's standard complement has much on audio/video 
but less coverage on scanning:

i) Scantailor Advanced (a current version that merges the features of the 
ScanTailor Featured and ScanTailor Enhanced versions, the latter two being it 
seems no longer developed):
https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced/

ii) tesseract-ocr for document optical character recognition and pdf assembly 
etc; see e.g.:
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdoc

iii) DjVuLibre suite preferably including DjView v.4.10.4 as it can export from 
DjVu to pdf rather than just to postscript:
http://djvu.sourceforge.net/

iv) pdftk for operations on pdf including fixing bookmarks etc:
https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/


Obviously I imagine I could in due course explore adding these myself to an 
installation if I proceeded but just wanted minimise the learning curve and 
thought of asking here in case others might find it useful to have one or more 
of these added to the default package list.


(B) LibreOffice Calc and Database:
I note a commenter stating at
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntustudio

"Would have given a 10 But they did not include Libreoffice Calc and Database? 
Why Not ??? I use them often."

I personally concur at least as regards OpenOffice Calc being included in 
(restored to?) the default package list.


(C) Ubuntu Studio mail archive - search function?

I can't see a search function for Ubuntu Studio, so apologies if this has been 
discussed before but was not found by me:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/

Is a seach function somewhere else? Looked but cannot find.

Debian users mail list has a support function; one example:
https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=scantailor&DEFAULTOP=or&B=Gdebian-user&SORT=&HITSPERPAGE=10


Regards,



Robert Jones





rwj at SDF.org
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