KidM to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 2 days agoWarning over free online file converters that actually install malwarewww.malwarebytes.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down11
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minus-squaressillyssadasslinkfedilinkEnglish7•2 days agoI figured it would just be good to get a list of safe options going, since the post is about unsafe options
minus-square@9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish19•2 days agoFair play! If you need to convert audio or video, ffmpeg is your man If you need to convert a document pandoc is what you need If you need to convert an image, imagemagick If you need to “convert” some online media into local media, yt-dlp Can’t think of another use case that people would regularly be converting off the top of my head, but happy to fill in any gaps if there are any
minus-square@taladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 days agoConvert image to text (OCR) tesseract.
I figured it would just be good to get a list of safe options going, since the post is about unsafe options
Fair play!
If you need to convert audio or video, ffmpeg is your man
If you need to convert a document pandoc is what you need
If you need to convert an image, imagemagick
If you need to “convert” some online media into local media, yt-dlp
Can’t think of another use case that people would regularly be converting off the top of my head, but happy to fill in any gaps if there are any
Convert image to text (OCR) tesseract.