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hbornfree

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    Thanks for this! I have the exact use-case and have been using a Python script to do this for a while.

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    Comment #29964429

    Hello HN, This is Harsha, from the team at 3difyMe. We rolled out the first version of 3difyMe a week ago and wanted to get some feedback from HN community. 3difyMe converts flat p…

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    Comment #29224626

    What's happening behind the scenes? Without knowing that it's hard to take the claim of 'no server involvement' at face value. Does the sender have to be up for the receiever to re…

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    Given how impossible it is achieve global consensus on policy, I'm pretty inclined to believe that a technological breakthrough is the only solution. Maybe a series of them. In the…

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    Comment #27221045

    This does resonate with me! Happy to discuss and help you where possible. How can I reach out to you? Or maybe you can send me a 'hi' at harsha.xg{at}gmail.com?

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    Comment #27220614

    Thanks for the suggestions @warrenm. While I understand the importance of climate awareness and community building, I'm afraid that isn't where I shine. Anything more technical, ma…

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    Ask HN: How do I help wildlife conservation and ecology with tech?

    In my professional career spanning roughly a decade, I have been a developer, product manager and a co-founder at small startups. While I have not made a truckload of money, I have…

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    Comment #19399369

    We are interested to solve the reverse problem of finding the mask of text given an image with text on it. Any ideas? Machine-learnt or otherwise.

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    Comment #18466940

    +1 Will help many devs who do remote work and have to take calls.

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    Comment #18315210

    We haven't decided on the pricing nor implemented it in code. That's the next thing to do. Probably we'll roll out both bundles ($x for y images) or subscriptions. As for the copy,…

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    Comment #18314750

    > takes many hours to manually do this right now This was also the original problem we set out to solve. Thank you for letting us know that more people share the same problem. Unfo…

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    Comment #18314289

    It does OCR ofcourse. Pipeline is roughly: OCR -> Text property identification -> Inpainting -> Region averaging -> Translation -> Fitting Please have the LSP try it out and see if…

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    Comment #18314286

    By integrating the tool to professional CAT tools we're guessing. Businesses almost always never buy machine translated output

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    Comment #18314284

    Thank you for the feedback! Will fix it right away

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    Comment #18314283

    It isn't. ANd as mentioned in the blog post, we want to discuss how it works in the next post and open source as much as we can. We're built on open-source stuff after all. :)

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    Comment #18314280

    Yes we do know of Project Naptha. Infact I personally used it a couple of years ago. imgtranslate also has a text region identification module (through clustering mechanisms) but I…

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    Comment #18310315

    What you're describing sounds like the Google Translate camera feature(erstwhile WordLens). If you haven't tried it out, you should. Works quite well on photos taken on phone for s…

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    Comment #18299150

    Hello everyone! The creator of imgtranslate here. Happy to discuss anything on tech and product. The current stack uses a good dose of traditional(OpenCV) and neural implementation…

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    This is terrific! Very coincidentally, we were thinking of implementing a sentence de-noiser using sequence-to-sequence models only today evening. I work in the NLP domain writing …

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    Not Caffe. We're using a light weight in-house library which compiles and runs easily on mobile devices too. The advantage is primarily in size as we don't need as many features as…