Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image • Hacker News Board

Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

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Post by tiles » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 9:07 PM UTC

This is amazing! Is there a planned open-source license or commercialization of this?

Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

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Post by bondolo » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 9:09 PM UTC

I can imagine quite a few blind people are creaming their jeans about now.

Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

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Post by wdewind » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 9:09 PM UTC

sscalia wrote: post #26

Badass. Now support Good Browsers™ like Safari and Firefox.

Curious, what makes you find those to be better than Chrome? I recently switched to FF for a variety of random work reasons, and found it so much worse than chrome (basic UI, dev tools, speed) that I switched back asap. Maybe I'm missing something awesome about them.

Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 9:11 PM UTC

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Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

#35

Post by batmansbelt » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 9:18 PM UTC

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #23

batmansbelt wrote: post #17

Now the NSA will be reading the contents of your animated GIFs.

Do you really think the NSA hasn't had access to OCR technology until now?

It was a hilarious joke.

Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

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Post by chc » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 9:20 PM UTC

wdewind wrote: post #33

sscalia wrote: post #26

Badass. Now support Good Browsers™ like Safari and Firefox.

Curious, what makes you find those to be better than Chrome? I recently switched to FF for a variety of random work reasons, and found it so much worse than chrome (basic UI, dev tools, speed) that I switched back asap. Maybe I'm missing something awesome about them.

From the phrasing, I'm guessing this is more of a statement of values than a technical assessment.

Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

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Post by darkhorn » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 9:21 PM UTC

What project won the first place in HackMIT 2013?

Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

#38

Post by jonnynezbo » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 9:24 PM UTC

This is pretty cool, but not perfect. Upon copy & pasting the captured text, several of the words and letters are wrong.

Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

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Post by deviltreh » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 9:30 PM UTC

Now that is pretty damn cool. Will help at work when marketing people do not copy paste email/article and just put screenshot of it and if you want to quite something from that picture...

Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image

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Post by leeoniya » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 9:31 PM UTC

@antimatter15, i have a project that does client-side image analysis and decompses document structures. it looks like your OCR code would be a great replacement for the server-side Tesseract ocr i currently use :)

here's what the project does now with js + web workers:

http://i.imgur.com/QvXSkY2.png

processing time is the code is open source, though using it isnt yet polished. i'm working slowly on a blog post series to detail how to use the lib(s). https://github.com/leeoniya/pXY.js

a walkthrough of the base lib is here: http://o-0.me/pXY/