Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
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Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#2This looks very cool and could come in quite handy.
In case anyone from the project is monitoring - text selection did seem to work fine for me in FireFox (ESR 24.3) despite the "Not Supported" text being displayed.
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#3> Unfortunately, your browser is not yet supported, currently only Google Chrome is supported.
FF 28 seems to be working fine with the "Weenie Hut Jr." version...is it just the add-on that isn't supported?
awesome tech, btw
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#4> Unfortunately, your browser is not yet supported, currently only Google Chrome is supported. FF 28 seems to be working fine with the "Weenie Hut Jr." version...is it just the add-on that isn't supported? awesome tech, btw
Yeah, I just haven't gotten around packaging the whole thing as a Firefox Addon. It's actually technically possible to run the whole thing on a normal unprivileged webpage (in fact, that's my development environment).
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#5Doesn't work great. Went to reddit's advice animal page to try it out and it doesn't seem to work with livememe (I think they have an invisible layer over their images to try and block hot linking).
Here is a copy/paste example from imgur:
http://i.imgur.com/sKQXx8v.jpg
Top: vou SAID w[ W[R[ |[AVINĞ`ON TIM[TOAV
Bottom: TN[ FACTTNATl'M MAWING TNISM[M[ g INST[AD of DRIVING D[TERMIN[D TN#rWASA ll[
Maybe it needs to be a certain font for better results. Still pretty cool. Hopefully all the kinks get worked out. I would definitely find this useful.
EDIT: need to make sure the language is set to "internet meme" and it works much better.
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#6Doesn't work great. Went to reddit's advice animal page to try it out and it doesn't seem to work with livememe (I think they have an invisible layer over their images to try and block hot linking). Here is a copy/paste example from imgur: http://i.imgur.com/sKQXx8v.jpg Top: vou SAID w[ W[R[ |[AVINĞ`ON TIM[TOAV Bottom: TN[ FACTTNATl'M MAWING TNISM[M[ g INST[AD of DRIVING D[TERMIN[D TN#rWASA ll[ Maybe it needs to be a…
By default it uses Ocrad.js, a pure javascript OCR engine (ported via emscripten, see http://antimatter15.github.io/ocrad.js/demo.html). But if you right click on the selection and change the language to "Internet Meme", it should transcribe it correctly (note that this sends the selection off to a server for remote processing- It's not the default for privacy and scalability considerations at the moment).
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#7Doesn't work great. Went to reddit's advice animal page to try it out and it doesn't seem to work with livememe (I think they have an invisible layer over their images to try and block hot linking). Here is a copy/paste example from imgur: http://i.imgur.com/sKQXx8v.jpg Top: vou SAID w[ W[R[ |[AVINĞ`ON TIM[TOAV Bottom: TN[ FACTTNATl'M MAWING TNISM[M[ g INST[AD of DRIVING D[TERMIN[D TN#rWASA ll[ Maybe it needs to be a…
I tried your same sample image. The top came out much better than the bottom:
YOU SAID WE WERE LEAVING'ON TIME:TODAY
TN[ FACTTNAT |'M MAWING TNIS M[M[ INST[AD of DRIVING D[TERMIN[D TN#rWASA ll[
I imagine that the thick outline of the font makes it hard to detect the edge of the letters, especially since it obscures the true "background".
e: using the Internet Meme language worked much better!
YOU SAID WE WERE LEAVING'ON TIME:TODAY
(:/J
THE FACT THAT I'M MAKING THIS MEME INSTEAD OF DRIVING DETERMINED THAT WAS A LIE
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#8Doesn't work great. Went to reddit's advice animal page to try it out and it doesn't seem to work with livememe (I think they have an invisible layer over their images to try and block hot linking). Here is a copy/paste example from imgur: http://i.imgur.com/sKQXx8v.jpg Top: vou SAID w[ W[R[ |[AVINĞ`ON TIM[TOAV Bottom: TN[ FACTTNATl'M MAWING TNISM[M[ g INST[AD of DRIVING D[TERMIN[D TN#rWASA ll[ Maybe it needs to be a…
By default it uses Ocrad.js, a pure javascript OCR engine (ported via emscripten, see http://antimatter15.github.io/ocrad.js/demo.html ). But if you right click on the selection and change the language to "Internet Meme", it should transcribe it correctly (note that this sends the selection off to a server for remote processing- It's not the default for privacy and scalability considerations at the moment).
Ah, much better!
Top: YOU SAID WE WERE LEAVING'ON TIME:TODAY
Bottom: THE FACT THAT I'M MAKING THIS MEME INSTEAD OF DRIVING DETERMINED THAT WAS A LIE
Next time I'll RTFM.
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#9The Mentalist reference, anyone?
In any case, pretty cool project, I'm a bit amazed how far we've come since I've last played with OCRs (and defeated one bad CAPTCHA implementation, still in use at pastebin.com it seems).
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#10The biggest thing I'd like to see is enabling in-page (control/command-f) search. In my quick scan through the page it looks like it doesn't do that… is that right? Are there plans to add invisible text to the DOM that control-f can find?