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?

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    11 months ago

    I’ve done a bash script and a KDE shortcut for that a while ago. I didn’t even remember it until now. It’s useful sometimes.

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      11 months ago

      FWIW :

      fabien@fabien-CORSAIR-ONE-i160:~$ cat /home/fabien/bin/screenocr #!/bin/bash

      spectacle -r -nb -o /tmp/test.png
      tesseract -l eng /tmp/test.png /tmp/ocr
      #date +%s >> ~/grab_timed
      #cat /tmp/ocr.txt >> ~/grab_timed
      firefox --new-tab --url https://duckduckgo.com/?q="$(cat /tmp/ocr.txt)"
      

      PS: was curious about it, done that in August 2022