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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

#131
This is EXACTLY what I need at the moment.

I get a big problem with various people sending me screenshots with stackdumps in. This is perfect for extracting them into the ticket bodies and it does it perfectly (I've just done 20 with it and manually checked them!)

This is the sort of stuff that really improves people's lives by making all data equal.

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

#132
Please help, it looks brilliant, however, only the test page works for me. Can't get any other pages to work. Text simply isn't selectable - cursor remains as a pointer, not an'I' :(

I'm using the latest version of Chrome on a modern Mac and have Naptha properly installed and Chrome has been relaunched.

Any hints would be appreciated.

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

#134

Holy crap, antimatter15 does so many cool things. I keep finding things that are really cool and then scroll down to find they are all written by him. First Shinytouch, then Protobowl years later and now this. And he's only a year older than me (19) so it isn't that he's had more time. Check out his Github profile for more of his projects: http://github.com/antimatter15

I was amazed as well, same age as me. Now I feel challenged to execute even more of my ideas, well done Sir!

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

#135
post #33
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.

I use Safari, and I find it to be better than Chrome because it's easier to sync with my iPhone and iPad, and with iCloud keychain even my passwords are synced.

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

#136
I tried it on the handwritten all-caps text on this page: http://xkcd.com/1271/

It (sort of) worked:

"I AB5ENTH|NDEDLY5ELECT RANDU1 Bl.OO<5 OFTEXTHSI READ, PND FEEL SLRONSCDUSLY SATISFIED LHEN THE HIGHUGHTED AREA |"PKE5 H 5Yl’R1ETRICHL 5|-PPE"

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

#138
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I use Safari, and I find it to be better than Chrome because it's easier to sync with my iPhone and iPad, and with iCloud keychain even my passwords are synced.

Interesting thanks
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