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OCRmyPDF is a powerful command-line tool that adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, enabling search and copy-paste functionality. It uses Tesseract OCR to recognize over 100 languages, optimizes PDF images, distributes work across CPU cores, and produces validated PDF/A output. Users can convert scanned PDFs to searchable PDFs, deskew crooked PDFs, change output metadata, and produce PDF/A files for long-term storage.

OpenBB is a comprehensive, open-source financial platform that offers a wide range of data and analysis tools for equity, options, crypto, forex, macro economy, and fixed income. It provides a command-line interface and Python packages to address issues like data inaccuracy and lack of open-source financial platforms, allowing users to analyze financial data and customize the platform to fit their needs.

This curated list of open-source, self-hosted media projects deployable with Docker provides a comprehensive resource for managing your personal media library. It covers a wide range of functionalities, from music streaming and video management to karaoke hosting and automated media downloads, all easily deployable using Docker and Docker Compose.

Deep-Live-Cam is a real-time face swap and video deepfake tool that allows users to swap faces in videos with just a single click and a single image. It uses deep learning models to enable features like mouth masking, face mapping, and live shows, while having built-in checks to prevent inappropriate content processing.

This repository is a comprehensive guide to understanding complex systems, covering a wide range of topics from communication protocols to real-world case studies. It aims to explain these concepts using visuals and simple terms, making it useful for both those preparing for system design interviews and those simply wanting to deepen their understanding of how systems work beneath the surface.

MongoDB's GenAI Showcase is a comprehensive repository that provides examples and applications for Retrieval-Augmented Generation, AI Agents, and industry-specific use cases. It showcases how MongoDB can be integrated as a vector database, operational database, and memory provider to power these Generative AI solutions. Users can leverage this repository to get started with Generative AI, build advanced applications, and contribute to the community.

This comprehensive 12-week web development curriculum by Microsoft Cloud Advocates teaches JavaScript, CSS, and HTML through engaging hands-on projects. It offers a self-paced learning experience with quizzes, discussions, and practical assignments to enhance your skills and optimize knowledge retention.

This is a responsive and accessible admin dashboard UI built with Shadcn, Vite, and TypeScript. It features light/dark mode, a built-in sidebar, global search, and 10+ pages. The project is designed to be reusable and can be customized to fit your specific needs.

Follow is an open information platform that aims to provide a customized and efficient browsing experience by organizing content into a distraction-free timeline. It utilizes AI-powered features like translation and summarization, and supports a wide range of dynamic content. Follow is currently under active development and welcomes user feedback, allowing users to organize their information feeds, explore curated collections, support creators with $POWER, and enjoy a seamless browsing experience on the web app or desktop client.

The Prompt Engineering Toolkit at Uber enables users to efficiently create, manage, and evaluate prompt templates for large language models, supporting rapid iteration, batch generation, and responsible AI usage through features like version control, safety checks, and performance monitoring.

Meta's new ads recommendation system uses sequence learning instead of traditional DLRM-based models with manual feature engineering, improving ads prediction accuracy by 2-4% through deeper understanding of users' evolving behavior and dynamic intents.

Monster Cables, a leading audio equipment company, threatened legal action against a blogger who criticized their business practices. However, the blogger, a former lawyer, refused to back down and instead used the opportunity to highlight Monster Cables' questionable tactics, ultimately leading to a public relations disaster for the company.

Crabtime brings Zig's powerful comptime metaprogramming capabilities to Rust, allowing developers to leverage compile-time computation for improved performance and code generation.

PyTorch's internal architecture is explored, covering the core concepts and mechanisms that power the library. From tensor representation and layout to automatic differentiation and operator dispatch, this comprehensive overview provides valuable insights into the internals of this popular deep learning framework.

California Attorney General issues urgent consumer alert for 23andMe customers, warning about potential privacy and data security concerns regarding the company's genetic testing services.

Scallop, a new language for neurosymbolic programming, aims to bridge the gap between neural networks and symbolic reasoning, enabling more flexible and interpretable AI models.

Mozilla's AI team has created an AI-powered OpenStreetMap tool that uses computer vision to help users map swimming pools and other features more efficiently, potentially increasing mapping productivity by 5 times.

The polar vortex is expected to continue disrupting weather patterns for at least the next two weeks, with smaller lobes of the vortex periodically splitting off. Current forecasts suggest the stratospheric winds may not recover this spring, leading to an early 'final warming' rather than a mid-winter sudden stratospheric warming. This could still impact weather in the eastern US, though the effects may not be as severe as in winter due to the warming temperatures of spring.

The CEO of an AI ad tech firm, who pledged to create a world free of fraud, was sentenced for fraud. This ironic twist highlights the challenges in addressing fraud and deception, even among those claiming to solve the problem.