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Re: Project Naptha

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Post by dirkc »

me_again wrote: post #15

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

There used to be a project that kind if did this: https://beagle-project.org/. It's long since defunct and I'm always surprised that nothing emerged to fill the gap?

EDIT: I did a bit of Wikipedia rabbit holing only to discover that tracker [1] is currently running on my computer and indexing my files

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_(search_software)

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

I love this idea, Apple recently added it for saved photos on iOS and I think in preview too? It doesn't seem to be working for me though. I highlighted some text, hit ctrl + c and got this in my clipboard:

http://projectnaptha.com/process/ (IDX:a:0-a:1-a:2-b:7&a:0&a:0&168&817:XDI) / ELAPSED 26.11SEC / DATE Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:08:50 GMT / TEXT RECOGNITION IN PROGRESS ]>

The right-click translate doesn't seem to work either, it just selects a whole paragraph.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by input_sh »

crorella wrote: post #20
jordemort wrote: post #19

This needs a year annotation - I almost emailed to express interest in a Firefox version until I noticed the references to Chrome 36 and Google+

hehe, I was thinking the same, then I read your comment. I wish they give support to Firefox in the future, getting text (and even modifying it!) is something I need to do often.

Opening via Firefox shows me this:

> Depending on the number of sign-ups, a Firefox version may be released in a few weeks. If you're interested in Naptha for other browsers, email me.

So they're at the very least considering it.

EDIT: Never mind, it says so since 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140425003753/https://projectna...

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by applgo443 »

me_again wrote: post #15

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

I considered doing this - take screenshots of your screen constantly, OCR them and index them. It's fairly simple. However, there are some problems

- OCR constantly running in the background is power consuming - What granularity do you take your screenshots? Imagine each screenshot is 500 Kb and you take one each second. This'd result in 40 gigs of data per day. How are we gonna store it? How many days data do you want to keep?

Re: Project Naptha

#55

Post by nly »

applgo443 wrote: post #54
me_again wrote: post #15

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

I considered doing this - take screenshots of your screen constantly, OCR them and index them. It's fairly simple. However, there are some problems - OCR constantly running in the background is power consuming - What granularity do you take your screenshots? Imagine each screenshot is 500 Kb and you take one each second. This'd result in 40 gigs of data per day. How are we gonna store it? How many days data do you wa…

Privacy?

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by AB1908 »

me_again wrote: post #15

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

Try looking at karilicoss' promnesia and it's background for similar ideas and tools.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by sneak »

solardev wrote: post #22
me_again wrote: post #15

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

I think windows and Mac both do this by default, no? Just disable the web search and your local full text is what you're left with.

It doesn't index text in local image files, and it doesn't index over the full text of all the webpages and epubs I've read.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by billwashere »

applgo443 wrote: post #54
me_again wrote: post #15

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

I considered doing this - take screenshots of your screen constantly, OCR them and index them. It's fairly simple. However, there are some problems - OCR constantly running in the background is power consuming - What granularity do you take your screenshots? Imagine each screenshot is 500 Kb and you take one each second. This'd result in 40 gigs of data per day. How are we gonna store it? How many days data do you wa…

That's Apse – A Personal Search Engine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27965979

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by ralfd »

This is a cool project, but this is a bit embarrassing:

> I started building a text recognizer algorithm specifically designed for Impact font, and it was actually working pretty well, but I kind of misplaced the code somewhere. So, until I find it or replace it, you'll have to use Tesseract configured with the "Internet Meme" language.

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