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A little over a year ago, I relocated with the kids to another state, while the divorce final orders are on appeal. Their mom is the one appealing, not me. The appeal is waiting on when the appellate court will issue it's ruling which could be any day now, or it could be 6 more months, or longer. She still lives in the prior state but claims she is moving by the start of the school year.

I understand while under the appeal our prior state has exclusive jurisdiction and this will change one the appeal is over. I expect the appeal to be in my favor, and I'm sure she will file up to the US Supreme Court, I kid you not.

The question I have is how long after the appeal, if the case is then truly over, does our prior state able to enforce the parenting plan? I plan on filing contempt within the next few weeks but am worried if the appeal comes back during the time that it can no longer enforce, or that it won't because she will be moving to have Texas to have jurisdiction. I had heard the prior state can still enforce for 6 months but I'm not certain.

My family and I moved to Leander last summer and one thing I didn’t think about, was fireworks being legal or not, or if not if anybody really cares negatively. Where we live before, our city never had a band on them, but some cities around, and nobody called the cops for fireworks. In fact, pretty much all the police departments expressly stated, do not contact them for fireworks, they are too busy.

The question I have here is if Leander police do anything about fireworks. Best time of the year for me is friends and family at home, celebrating Independence Day, including writing on fireworks and the majority of it at night.

Do any of the Yealink DECT phones work with the ooma residual Telo?

I’ve been going down the rabbit hole on Android head units lately and trying to make sense if there are any high qualify ones.

From what I keep reading, the general consensus seems to be that they’re not as “good” as something from Pioneer or Kenwood. And honestly, for my use case, even a basic unit with Android Auto / Apple CarPlay would probably be more than enough.

But here’s where I’m getting stuck…
For roughly the same price (or sometimes cheaper), it looks like you can get a full Android-based head unit that does way more — apps, customization, split screen, onboard navigation, etc. Even if I mostly end up using CarPlay/Android Auto, I like the idea of having the flexibility to do more.

Right now, from everything I’ve been reading, it seems like DUDU7 is considered one of the better Android units out there (or at least one of the more talked about). But even at the higher end, these still don’t seem that expensive compared to something like a mid-tier Pioneer.

So I guess my confusion is:
If they’re this capable and relatively affordable… why wouldn’t you go Android?

What are the actual downsides in real-world use? (sound quality? reliability? boot time? UI lag?)

Are there better Android units I should be looking at besides DUDU7?

Or is this just one of those “spec sheet vs real-world experience” situations?

Would love to hear from people who’ve actually used both. Right now it feels like I’m missing something obvious.

I’m looking to OCR a large number of legal documents and related case materials. I’m not an attorney, but I’ve been involved in a very difficult divorce that has never really ended and has spun off into several related civil cases. At this point, there are tens of thousands of pages of documents, and many of them were never OCR’d. I’m now trying to go back through everything and make sure the documents are searchable and usable.

What would currently be considered the gold standard for OCR’ing legal documents?

Some options I’ve looked at include ABBYY, Adobe, Google Document AI, Tesseract, and other tools. Right now I was leaning toward Google Document AI, but I’m wondering if ABBYY or something else would be better. I’m on a Mac, so if I used ABBYY it would likely be the Mac version. I could also run something locally if that makes sense, including Local LLM.

Batch processing is not my biggest concern. I’m fine uploading files one at a time into an app if that produces better results. Accuracy is more important than convenience.

My concern is that while most OCR tools may work fine for simple documents, legal documents can have a lot of different formats, including pleadings, exhibits, scanned forms, mixed layouts, stamps, signatures, and handwritten notes. Some documents also include handwriting, and unfortunately a lot of it is not written clearly. In some cases, it is hard to read even in person.

I’d also like this workflow to be useful beyond just court documents. Ideally, I want something that can also handle receipts, invoices, medical bills, medical records, school report cards, letters, forms, and other personal records. So I’m not only looking for something that works well on pleadings, but something that can become a reliable long-term document OCR/archive workflow for many different document types.

For people working with large legal or personal document collections, what OCR tool or workflow would you recommend today if the goal is the best possible searchable text while preserving the original PDF as much as possible?