![]() Will open document.pdf in the current working directory with the default application for PDF files (usually Preview). In general you can think of open as the command line equivalent of double-clicking a file or folder in Finder. ![]() Or you can use the keyboard short cut ⌘⌥W. To clean up, you can option-click any close button in a Finder window to close all Finder windows. You can also open multiple folders at once: $ open ~/Documents ~/Desktop ~/Downloads This can be used as a quick way to navigate to hidden directories. Trivially, it cannot merely open the current working directory, but any path: $ open ~/Library/Preferences However, the open command can do so much more. ![]() (You, dear wonderful reader, know this because you read my previous post on Terminal-Finder Interaction.) Will open the current working directory in a Finder window. Most Terminal users will know that $ open. You probably won’t be performing text extraction against 1920s magazine articles-maybe so, if you’re like me!-but the slightly degraded nature of the source text and quality of the scan puts the services and software to a more substantial test than pristine rendered typography.You can learn more about using Terminal and the shell on macOS in my my book: “ macOS Terminal and Shell” - Thank you! ![]() ![]() You can see the figures below with each app or service noted. For a side-by-side comparison that demonstrated my results starkly, I copied out the results of recognition against the same legibly typeset magazine copy from a 1920s Popular Mechanics article (about comic-strip production). In researching this article, I tested a range of images and documents that proved fairly consistent across each service or app. You may already have a free account or paid subscription to one of the services below or own the software. These types also include PDFs with scanned images that have no text layer already inserted or extracted. If you are trying to access text in images you have, whether documents, photos, or forms, you have many options available. ![]()
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