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Software: OCR, PhotoPrism, Blender, and syslog-ng
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TecMint ☛ Top 5 Open-Source OCR Tools for Linux in 2025
Using it, you don’t need to manually type up documents as they are automatically transformed into machine-readable text format, which comes in handy in some situations and allows you to save time and effort.
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Linuxiac ☛ PhotoPrism AI-Powered Photos App Adds Map-Based Location Editor
PhotoPrism’s July 2025 release introduces Ollama Hey Hi (AI) support, enhanced search capabilities, and a new map-based location tool.
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It's FOSS ☛ Blender 5.0 Set to Bring HDR Support for Linux Wayland Users
The upcoming Blender 5.0 release is set to bring a notable improvement for Linux: experimental support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) rendering when using the Wayland display server with the Vulkan graphics backend.
This is a big step towards expanding Blender’s rendering capabilities on Linux, offering a more accurate visual preview for artists working in areas like animation, visual effects, and game development.
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Peter Czanik: Prometheus exporter in syslog-ng
Last year, we published a Prometheus exporter for syslog-ng, implemented in Python. However, syslog-ng 4.9.0 will include one that runs as part of syslog-ng. Needless to say, testing and feedback are very welcome!
As syslog-ng 4.9.0 is not yet released, you need to run a development snapshot of syslog-ng to test this feature. You can compile syslog-ng from source, but luckily there are many other options available as well, especially if you want to run syslog-ng on GNU/Linux or FreeBSD. I collected these in a recent blog at https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/a-call-for-testing-the-upcoming-syslog-ng-releases. You also need Prometheus. I used the version available in openSUSE Leap as a package in the distribution.
Append the following configuration snippet to your syslog-ng.conf or create a new .conf file under the /etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/ directory, if your syslog-ng deployment is configured to use it.