I remember your 2nd place win at HackMIT, congratz again. It was THE most useful hack by far and I'm glad you've made it a public product now, and free. Wow, it seems like you beat all those years industrial OCR products... and by far. This is simply amazing, keep on the great work!!!
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
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Mine automatically selects the appropriate language on the meme images. Including your link. Updated already?
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#93> 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).
In that case, why not make it available as a javascript bookmark?
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#94I have a feeling that if you just make the OCR better, a lot of users are going to use this for entering CAPTCHAs...
Doesn't seem to work on reCAPTCHA images at all.
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#95I like the way this extension removes text in the image, but I would much rather have a video delogo filter for that does not suck. It would be very useful for removing hard subtitles, station logos, screener warnings etc.
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#96Seemed like an interesting project, clicked on the linked scanned the page an it seems to be an empty pointless web page trying to explain over pages worth of scrolling that it allows to deal with text trapped inside images which I already knew when I clicked the link.
Going back to the page after closing it once, I noticed written in smaller characters that this somewhat pointless page is for a useless extension as it is exclusively limited to the worst offender privacy wise of a web browser that I would not touch with a stick. google chrome is the new internet explorer to me as its main use is to download firefox.
In conclusion this looked promising but a confusing web page and browser lock-in renders it useless and shows that it is far from doing what it claims. "... on every image you see while browsing the web" should be "...on every image you see while browsing the web in google chrome".
No github and no open license tells me that as a linux user of opera I'm pretty much assured I will never see a version of this extension.
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#97Very nifty. Although, it would have been even more awesome if it worked with Google Books.
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#98Just tested with a random scanned page (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/info_theory/ShannonWeb/fullsi...) the result is almost garbage. It seems as bad as most OCR software I have encountered. This was to be expected as it is based on ocrad.
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Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#99Seemed like an interesting project, clicked on the linked scanned the page an it seems to be an empty pointless web page trying to explain over pages worth of scrolling that it allows to deal with text trapped inside images which I already knew when I clicked the link. Going back to the page after closing it once, I noticed written in smaller characters that this somewhat pointless page is for a useless extension as…
Not sure why my comment is downvoted, this is worthwhile (potential) user feedback/criticism.
Webpage is not to the point and design has some room for improvement. See point 1 and 2 of http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/biggest-mistakes-in-web-desi...
Re: Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text selection on any image
#100Very impressive work. I'm not surprised to find antimatter15 behind it.
The website was not very clear if work was done client-side or not (mentioning server calls). It turns out that server calls can be disabled and the extension is working quite fine without. By default, I would disable this option and offer opt-in, it is better for privacy I think.