case "$extension" in
    odt|odp)
        try odt2txt "$path" && { dump | trim | fmt -s -w $width; exit 0; };;

whisper --model tiny --language en hpr2637.wav

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Comment #1 posted on 2018-09-13T05:00:37Z by Ken Fallon

WOW

Those that I know I use literally every day. Can't wait to try the rest out.

Please do a deep dive series on each. No pressure.

Comment #2 posted on 2018-09-14T11:23:51Z by Beeza

Value of text conversion

I'm a big fan of plain text and CSV files, as they are probably the formats that will last conceptually forever - unlike the Office formats we use today (including ODS/ODT etc). You may lose the layout information but the "meat" is always preserved.

The PDF to Text converters only work with documents which have been generated from a WP application. Scans of a printed document generally only produce an embedded JPG image.

A few years ago I created a system that employed many of the commands you mention in your episode to convert a document into pure ASCII text, then create a non-repeating list of all the words it contains, along with an instance count (using SQL). By applying this to the contents of a document library the database was used to populate a "search by keyword" system for that library.

Populating the database from several hundred Word and PDF documents took only a couple of minutes. The subsequent keyword searches were very fast and produced a list of relevant documents ranked by the number of instances of the keyword. It was very easy to combine keywords using SQL "AND" and "OR" qualifiers.

Comment #3 posted on 2018-09-15T11:49:36Z by Jonas

Ranger, etc.

I'm a die hard vimmer and have never heard of Ranger. I'm looking forward to using it more. I asked a couple of my online Linuxey buddies and they used it years ago when they had less substantial machines. I still love the command line stuff even with my best machines. Everything is super quick in the terminal.
Thanks for the mention and your great shows.
I need to explore jq for sure. I work with a database that saves a couple columns in JSON. It would be nice to query the exports in a more friendly way.

Comment #4 posted on 2018-09-15T15:34:53Z by Dave Morriss

Great show

I installed Ranger after listening to your show 1756 (https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1756) but never used it and completely forgot about it. I was surprised to find it on my system and have been playing about with it a lot since listening to this show.

I'm a long-time text and command-line user but I tend to use Midnight Commander for the times I want to do a lot of file searching and manipulation, though I have to admit I use Dolphin sometimes in two-pane mode when I'm doing things like copying files off an SD card. I shall add Ranger to the mix too I think.

I agree with Ken: we need shows about all of the tools in your list!

Anyway, this was a very welcome episode. Thanks.

Comment #5 posted on 2018-09-20T03:07:44Z by clacke

Q

Never heard of Q before. Very cool! I will very likely find use for this.

Not a very googlable name, but I found it here: https://harelba.github.io/q/

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