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Applications: Audacity 4.0, FairScan 2.0, and More
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Audacity 4.0 beta lets you test its new (nicer) Qt interface
Audacity 4’s first public beta arrived this month with the biggest design change the iconic open-source audio editor has seen in decades. The audio editor’s interface, built on wxWidgets since the project began, now runs in Qt. However, the audio engine which handles file I/O, project storage and the built-in effects, uses the older codebase, wired up to the new frontend via a module called au3wrap.
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LWN ☛ FairScan 2.0 released
Version 2.0 of the FairScan document-scanning app for Android has been released. The headline feature for this release is the addition of optical-character-recognition (OCR) support using Tesseract to produce PDFs with searchable text from scans. FairScan developer Pierre-Yves Nicolas has written a detailed blog about adding the feature and explaining why it had not been added previously.
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Linux Links ☛ OHIF Viewer – browser-based medical imaging viewer
OHIF Viewer is a browser-based medical imaging viewer designed for clinical imaging, research, and web deployment.