digiKam 8.0 Released With Expanded File Format Support, New OCR Tool

[phoronix]

Phoronix: digiKam 8.0 Released With Expanded File Format Support, New OCR Tool

The digiKam 8.0 open-source professional photo management software has been released. The digiKam 8.0 release brings a host of new features and improvements, including ongoing work of porting over to the Qt6 toolkit...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/digiKam-8.0-Released

[tildearrow]

Typo?

Better integration with QMIC-Qt 3.2.2.

[dreamcat4]

huh interesting. wonder how it compares to darktable. should to try for myself and see

[stiiixy]

Different markets, I thought. And complementary.

[Tuxie]

huh interesting. wonder how it compares to darktable.

Digikam is a pretty good image organizer with some primitive RAW development functionality built-in.
Darktable is a pretty good RAW developer with some primitive image organizing functionality built-in.

[Vistaus]

/me grabs popcorn for people either hating on KDE apps or because the name has a capital K

But seriously: I never really liked digiKam and always preferred gThumb, even though I've been a KDE or at least Qt desktop user for years. But I recently decided to give it another spin and it's actually really good now. So looking forward to more improvements in 8.0!

[stiiixy]

It's been 'pretty good' for years now. Lots of convenience going on in there as well, so nice for people wanting a camera to finished product. A bit of a learning hike, buy not outlandish.