Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of

#11

Post by pydox » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 4:09 AM UTC

Sublime. I want to get rid of annoying popup asking to buy Sublime.

Re: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of

#12

Post by BjoernKW » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 6:15 AM UTC

pydox wrote: post #11

Sublime. I want to get rid of annoying popup asking to buy Sublime.

Then buy it. The idea behind open source software isn’t to provide software for free but to provide free software.

Re: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of

#13

Post by mbrock » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 6:31 AM UTC

Google Sheets...

Re: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of

#14

Post by amatus » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 6:01 PM UTC

IDA Pro

Re: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of

#15

Post by staticautomatic » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 6:04 PM UTC

ocrcustomserver wrote: post #9

staticautomatic wrote: post #4

Zonal OCR software that can do data extraction as well as the stupid expensive offerings from ABBYY and Nuance.

Can you elaborate? What is the use case?

Extraction from semi-structured documents. Reqs:

- No absolute element positions

- Able to handle a reasonable amount of skew

- Able to handle photographs of documents (e.g. mobile)

- Excellent support for repeating groups/elements

- Around 95% accuracy without human verification

Re: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of

#16

Post by dzmitry_lahoda » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 6:19 PM UTC

Windows kernel and drivers.

Re: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of

#17

Post by ioanarebeca » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 6:28 PM UTC

mbrock wrote: post #13

Google Sheets...

Since Sheets is already free, I'm thinking you said this because you'd want it open sourced. Curious about why you'd want it open sourced.

Re: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of

#18

Post by throwmenow_0140 » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 6:34 PM UTC

Good(-looking) knowledge base software. Open source / on-prem solution

Like Confluence or Nuclino (nice UI/UX)

Re: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of

#19

Post by mbrock » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 6:45 PM UTC

ioanarebeca wrote: post #17

mbrock wrote: post #13

Google Sheets...

Since Sheets is already free, I'm thinking you said this because you'd want it open sourced. Curious about why you'd want it open sourced.

It's the most widely useful online service I know of, but building in it means vendor lockin and privacy problems. Collaborative spreadsheets seem like a building block of networked organizations and it would be great to have that under control (free as in freedom).

Re: Ask HN: What software would you like to see open source/free versions of

#20

Post by ocrcustomserver » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 10:42 PM UTC

staticautomatic wrote: post #15

ocrcustomserver wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate? What is the use case?

Extraction from semi-structured documents. Reqs: - No absolute element positions - Able to handle a reasonable amount of skew - Able to handle photographs of documents (e.g. mobile) - Excellent support for repeating groups/elements - Around 95% accuracy without human verification

Interesting, I have implemented some version of the above in the past (albeit not in an opensource/free solution).

If you have a specific document/data extraction need in mind, you can email me a sample and I will let you know if I can help.