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Looks like a great project, and I don't want to nitpick, but...

https://www.ocr4all.org/about/ocr4all > Due to its comprehensible and intuitive handling OCR4all explicitly addresses the needs of non-technical users.

https://www.ocr4all.org/guide/setup-guide/quickstart > Quickstart > Open a terminal of your choice and enter the following command if you're running Linux (followed by a 6 line docker command).

How is that addressing the needs of non-technical users?

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Any end-user application that uses docker is not an end-user application. It does not matter if the end-user knows how to use docker or not. End-user applications should be delivered as SaaS/WebUi or a local binary (GUI or CLI). Period.

Application installation isn't a user level task. The application being ready for a user to use, and being easy to install are separate. You get your IT literate helper to install for you, then, if the program is easy for users to use you're golden.

That's a very corporate mentality. Outside of an organizational context, installing applications certainly is a normal user level task. And for those users that have somebody help them, that somebody is usually just a younger person who's comfortable clicking 'Next' to get through an installer but certainly has no devops experience.

Maybe corporate, but that's how it works in my family...

"Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars."

<https://www.xkcd.com/2501/>

s/non-technical users/technical users who are into docker and don't mind filling their computers with large files for no good reason/

Those are called "tech enthusiasts"

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