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Wow - this is amazing. Right this very moment (well, a few moments ago when I wasn't procrastinating on HN) I was in the midst of extracting data from a client's old website in preparation of creating a new website. A lot of that data is contained within images. From a few preliminary tests, I'm hugely impressed. This seems on-par with any other OCR software I've used, and the fact that it happens in realtime in the…
What project won the first place in HackMIT 2013?
I remember seeing that from the project list and really wishing I could download it right away.
Just another example that the "idea are worthless!" saying is bullshit. This was a great idea, anyone implementing it first decently would get success with it.
What project won the first place in HackMIT 2013?
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/all-series/photos-recap-and-wi...
Once again, such a simple implementation by somebody that grabs some components that have been around for ages and mashes them up in a way that makes people question why it wasn't invented before
I've got this installed and it'll probalby never leave my chrome profiles. Keep up the awesome work!
Of course then it was "easy": almost all the text would have been rendered with one of a tiny number of fonts available on the system, with little to no distortion.
Here were the API references I could find for the remote OCR:
- GET " rel="nofollow">https://sky-lighter.appspot.com/api/read/
- GET " rel="nofollow">https://sky-lighter.appspot.com/api/lookup?url=
- POST https://sky-lighter.appspot.com/api/translate
Apparently the author was one of the winners of HackMIT 2013 according to some of the comments. Couple of fun things in there if you decide to poke around in the code. Jump into naptha-wick.js for the remote logic.
Note from the Dev (http://challengepost.com/users/antimatter15, http://antimatter15.com/wp/, https://twitter.com/antimatter15):
/* It's April 16, 2014.
It's been six months since I started this project.
Just under two years after I first came up with the idea.
It's weird to think of time as something that happens, to think of code as something that evolves. And it may be obvious to recognize that code is not organic, that it changes only in discrete steps as dictated by some intelligence's urging, but coupled with a faulty and mortal memory, its gradual slopes are indistinguishable from autonomy.
Hopefully, this project is going to launch soon. It looks like there's actually a chance that this will be able to happen.
The proximity of its launch has kind of been my own little perpetual delusion. During the hackathon, I announced that it would be released in two weeks time.
When winter break rolled by, I had determined to finish and release before the end of the year 2013.
This deadline rolled further way, to the end of January term, IAP as it is known. But like all the artificial dates set earlier, it too folded against the tides of procrastination.
I'll spare you February and March, but they too simply happened with a modicum of dread. This brings us to the present day, which hopefully will have the good luck to be spared from the fate of its predecessors.
After all, it is the gaseous vaporware that burns.
*/
> 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).