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@Jamie Teh @Asa Dotzler Since tesseract v4 accuracy is greatly improved. For adding text layer to scanned pdf files I am using an app called #ocrmypdf which uses #tesseract and it works sufficiently well for me. There are even some unofficial builds of tesseract for #android. Other than self packaged tesseract there is mlkit by google people are using on android for recognizing images. Performance and interfacing with tesseract may not be that great, I understand.


#AndroidAppRain today at Guardian with 1 update (Tor Browser Alpha), and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 5 updated and 2 new apps:

* qBitController: control qBittorrent from your Android device
* Tournant: Gourmand/Gourmet recipe parser which serves your dishes on your Android device

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and its repos :awesome:





Today's #AndroidAppRain has 37 updated apps at @fdroidorg – and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid brings you 10 updated apps and the wonder of the 1001 night, ahem, app:

* Amaze Utilities: the All-in-One file explorer – analyse, transfer and open files all in one app

Also, descriptions of apps from the #IzzySoftRepo should now render better in your F-Droid client (hopefully).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:





Any curious #Android users around? I just pushed the first early-bird code of my little sync tool to

codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync

Can be used to sync some data (documents & co, not intended for system stuff) without needing any app on-device. Uses rsync & adbfs (some details in the readme). You define per-directory whether it shall sync from or to the device. Supports bidirectional as well, but use that with care as it's rather hacky-wacky.


Mitternacht, die Glocken läuten // Zeit um den Artikel zu… äh, heuten?

Die 🇩🇪 Fassung meines Artikels zu @shiftphones SHIFT6mq ist jetzt freigeschaltet! Wer noch Schreibfehler findet, darf sie behalten (oder mir melden 🤪)

android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…

#Android #NoGoogle #foss


#AndroidAppRain today with 37 updated apps at #FDroid, 1 update app (Tor Browser) at Guardian – and 11 updated + 1 new apps at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid

* JxlViewer: a viewer for your jpeg-xl files

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the Guardian + #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:





After confirming the steps in a self-test, I've now "unlocked" the rooting section in my Article on @shiftphones SHIFT6mq:

android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…

🇩🇪 Da der Artikel somit jetzt vollständig ist, wird es bald™ auch eine deutsche Fassung geben. Vielleicht zu Weihnachten – oder statt "Gold, Weihrauch und Möhren" im Januar…

#Android :shiftphone: #rooting #noGoogle



Gerade wenn jetzt vor Weihnachten wieder ein #Smartphone unter dem Bäumchen landet, ein Hinweis: Antiviren-Scanner-Apps auf #Android und #iOS benötigt ihr nicht. Diesen nutzlosen Hokus-Pokus kann man sich sparen - am Ende wiegt man sich nur in falsche #Sicherheit, obwohl diese Apps systembedingt (Sandbox und Co.) kaum etwas leisten. Im Gegenteil: Diese vermeintlichen Sicherheits-Apps sind meist vollgestopft mit #Trackern. Mehr Infos und wie man idealerweise vorgeht 👇

kuketz-blog.de/truegerische-si…


#AndroidAppRain brings you 39 updated & 2 new (*) apps at @fdroidorg plus at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid 2 updated & 1 (+) new:

* AgoraDesk: buy BTC anonymously
* Little File Explorer: a minimalistic file manager
+ aShell: ADB shell directly on your Android device

Enjoy your #free & #foss #Android #apps with #FDroid – and also with the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

News ahead: soon starts the new millenium. F-Droid is close to 4k (3894), IoD close to 1k (986) apps. Who hits it first? Exciting times…



Tja, da haben wir den mehrdeutigen Salat:

* F-Droid.org: im Screenshot angepriesener Katalog freier Apps auf gleicher Domain.
* F-Droid: kommt darauf an. Der Client, die Server Software, oder…
* F-Droid Repo: Einer der vielen verfügbaren Kataloge (Repositories). Wie das Fediverse, ist auch F-Droid dezentral – und es gibt zahlreiche Kataloge, die man nutzen kann. Bei NeoStore sind viele davon vorkonfiguriert, sonst gibt es noch Listen bei @mondstern und mir…

#FDroid #FOSS #Android



#Tusky für #Android hat ein neues #Symbol in der App erhalten, bei einem vergangenen Update. 😀

Eine hübsche kleine Zeichnung eines #Mastodon ziert nun die #App, anstelle jenes vorheriges abstrakten Zeichen. 🤩

Sehr schön gelungen, mag ich.
Anbei noch eine #Collage mit Vorher & Nachher, sofern Wer nicht weiß was gemeint ist. 😏


The path to bringing you a great email experience on Android devices begins with K-9 Mail, which joined the Thunderbird family earlier this summer.

As we work towards a modern redesign of desktop Thunderbird, we’re also working to improve K-9 Mail as it begins its transition to Thunderbird mobile in Summer 2023.

Read more about today's new release of K-9 Mail on the Thunderbird blog:

blog.thunderbird.net/2022/11/t…

#Android #Thunderbird #K9Mail #Email #FOSS #OpenSource


Tired of your weather app violating your privacy, e.g. by instantly collecting your location data?

Worried because it has tracking software included?

You may try out the privacy-friendly #TinyWeatherForecastGermany , available at #fdroid :fdroid: :
f-droid.org/packages/de.kaffee…

This is a #floss #android #weather #app using precise and detailed #opendata from the #dwd (Deutscher Wetterdienst).

Supports #forecasts for over 5000 places worldwide, a rain radar and weather warnings for Germany.



Google publishes the source code for their TalkBack screen reader. GrapheneOS maintains a fork of it and includes it in GrapheneOS with the help of a blind GrapheneOS user who works on their own more elaborate fork. Eventually, we'd like to include more or all of their changes.

TalkBack depends on a text-to-speech (TTS) implementation installed/configured/activated. It needs to have Direct Boot support to function before the first unlock of a profile. Google's TTS implementation supports this and can be used on GrapheneOS, but it's not open source.

We requested Direct Boot support from both prominent open source implementations:

RHVoice: github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/iss…
eSpeak NG: github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng…

eSpeak NG recently added it but it's not yet included in a stable release and their licensing (GPLv3) is too restrictive for us.

RHVoice itself has acceptable licensing for inclusion in GrapheneOS (LGPL v2.1), but has dependencies with restrictive licensing. Both these software projects also have non-free licensing issues for the voices. Neither provides close to a working out-of-the-box experience either.

Google's Speech Services app providing text-to-speech and speech-to-text works perfectly. Their proprietary accessibility services app with extended TalkBack and other services also works fine. However, many of our users don't want to use them and we need something we can bundle.

There aren't currently any usable open source speech-to-text apps. There are experimental open source speech-to-text implementations but they lack Android integration.

We also really need to make a brand new setup wizard with both accessibility and enterprise deployment support.

GrapheneOS still has too little funding and too few developers to take on these projects. These would be standalone projects able to be developed largely independently. There are similar standalone projects which we need to have developed in order to replace some existing apps.

AOSP provides a set of barebones sample apps with outdated user interfaces / features. These are intended to be replaced by OEMs, but we lack the resources of a typical OEM. We replaced AOSP Camera with our own app, but we still need to do the same with Gallery and other apps.

Google has started the process of updating the open source TalkBack, which only happens rarely. We've identified a major issue: a major component has no source code published.

github.com/google/talkback/pul…

Google has been very hostile towards feedback / contributions for TalkBack...

This is one example of something seemingly on the right track significantly regressing. Another example is the takeover of the Seedvault project initially developed for GrapheneOS. It has deviated substantially from the original plans and lacks usability, robustness and security.

In the case of Seedvault, GrapheneOS designed the concept for it and one of our community members created it. It was taken over by a group highly hostile towards us and run into the ground. It doesn't have the intended design/features and lacks usability, security and robustness.

All of these are important standalone app projects for making GrapheneOS highly usable and accessible. What we need is not being developed by others and therefore we need to the resources including funding and developers to make our own implementations meeting our requirements.

#grapheneos #privacy #security #android #mobile #accessibility #texttospeech #speechtotext #talkback #blind #backup


Hi! I'm the Megalodon – the new name for my fork of Mastodon for Android. I exist because the official app is lacking many important features, which I intend to bring back!

Some features include:

• Unlisted posting
• Federated timeline
• Alt text viewer
• Bookmarks
• Pinning posts
• Handling follow requests

… and many more!

Visit my GitHub for downloads and more information:
github.com/sk22/megalodon#read…

#Introductions #Mastodon #Megalodon #Mastodos #MastoDev #Android #MastodonAndroid


:opensource: 👂🏽Do any #OpenSource #audio geeks know of tools for #Android and/or #Linux that can set separate equalization for each ear?

:covid19: Because of #COVID, I have #hearingLoss in my left ear and I would like to boost higher frequencies to get it somewhat equal.

:boost_requested: Thanks for any ideas. Please boost if you have audio-smart followers that might have ideas for me, and please wear a mask so this doesn't happen to you.


#AndroidAppRain today brings 38 updated apps at @fdroidorg plus 8 updated & 1 new apps at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid

* Traditional T9: T9 IME for Android devices with hardware keypad

Enjoy your #free & #foss #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


In my opinion, there is too much empty space between the text. 🤔
Cant wait for #Thunderbird on #Android !!! :android:


Here's a screenshot of #K9Mail's current message view. And two more showing what the NEW message design will look like! 👀

We've added some comments in the margins explaining some of the new features and UI elements.

Thunderbird for Android is taking shape, and it should be here before Thunderbird Supernova releases next summer!

(Note: This is by no means final, still a lot of polish and work to do)

#OpenSource #FOSS #Email #Android #Thunderbird



interesting feature with #Android...
but i'm a burned child.. on my windows it wasn't able for me to use IMAP
will there be improvements to use IMAP for android as my Windows laptop has retired and now i'm using Android devices only