With modern CPU’s supposedly shipping with ‘AI cores’: How long do you think it will take for a proper opensource, privacy respecting productivity tools(Something like whatever M$ copilot is supposed to be?) to be available?
Personally, i would love to see something like ‘Passive’ OCR integrated with the display server: the ability to pause any video and just select whatever text(even handwritten) there is naturally like it was a text document without any additional hassle will be really useful
Also useful in circumventing any blocks certain websites put on articles to prevent text from being copied
Or an AI grammar checker running natively for LibreOffice.
What are some AI tools you think should be developed for desktop Linux?
Not for handwritten text, but for printed fonts, getting OCR is as easy as just making a box in screen with current technology. So I don’t think we need AI things for that.
Personally I use tesseract. I have a simple bash script that when run let’s me select a rectangle in screen, save that image and run OCR in a temp folder and copy that text to clipboard. Done.
Edit: for extra flavor you can also use notify-send to send that text over a notification so you know what the OCR produced without having to paste it.
Share the script! Share the script! Share the script! (Nobody will judge you if it is written strangely or is hard to adapt, reading other people’s code is always fun (bash scripts are code fight me))