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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
Linux works for people who are OK with using obsolete technology: supercomputers of '50s, servers of '70s, primitive X-based GUI apps from '80s, or is content with a walled gardern environment which is completely OS-agnostic (like Android and MacOS, as well as various embedded uses).
For any creative work outside of vendor-locked apps you need a real OS, one that doesn't require you to two-pass compile your text documents, and doesn't treat your screen or console as being located on another continent.
I'm sure tesseract would work well if you did your own geometry correction, binarization, despecling, segmentation for it. Unsurprizingly, the primitive state of Linux software makes creating such a tool impossible.
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This is some trolling.
There's nothing primitive about Linux or FOSS software. You don't need to two pass compile a document in LibreOffice on Linux anymore than you do Word on Windows. People use LaTeX on Windows and Mac too because it's
still the gold standard for typesetting math and handling things like references automatically. Doing that in Word is literally PAINFUL. Even though Word is supposed to support LaTeX syntax it barely works and takes five times as long to have dig through the equation editor to find what you need and it STILL can't automatically number equations. Have fun adjusting all your equation numbers (including where they are referenced in the text!) when you need to insert one in the middle of a document. I will take waiting an extra 5 seconds to compile a TeX document twice to get references right vs. 30 minutes to adjust and find every equation number.
There's absolutely no reason something like FineReader couldn't work perfectly fine on Linux if they cared to port it. Zero. It's also possible to run a Linux GUI without using X at all anymore. Wayland has been a thing for several years at this point. You need to update your worldview which seems to be stuck in 1994 or something.