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…
you know,,,, there was a april fools day annoucement on torrentfreak years ago, maybe a decade, it was describing this behaviour.
that was nice
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…
Open-text question answering. Just make your own; index all paragraphs of all documents using TF-IDF as you access them, then when trying to search for something, use this index to get a set of candidate paragraphs and run them through BERT-QA trained on SQuAD v2. You can extend this to the content of images - first run image captioning using CNN and transformers, then index the resulting paragraphs the same way (in both cases, include a link to the original in the metadata). You might need to write some browser plugin/system driver to do it automatically as you access documents/images.
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?
Since parent is taking power consumption and disk storage into consideration, it's fair to assume they are considering a local approach, meaning privacy is as good/bad as any other local data you have on disk today.
This project is almost a decade old! I wonder why it resurfaced? Coincidentally or perhaps not the book in the post "How to do nothing with nobody all by yourself" also is a top HN post right now. Maybe related?
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…
It works on all images in Safari on macOS as well. It's actually been helpful but was very odd when all of a sudden the functionality appeared out of the blue.
last time i saw this the ocr component of it was tesseract (originally hp's c++ ocr engine, later acquired and open sourced by google, even later rewritten to use neural networks) compiled into webassembly.
This makes me feel old. I saw it for the first time in 2014 on HN, just when it was announced. I felt kind of envious of Kevin Kwok, author of this project. I had just graduated and he was still an undergrad. He had already shipped so many complex projects, including a full-fledged Flash Animator[1] for the web. It's pretty surprising to see that his site hasn't been updated since 2015 and not many projects have been…
what I would like to find is a free a cheap way to OCR my handwritten notes. I know that handwritten is much more difficult but it would be possible to use supervised learning mon my specific handwriting.
what I would like to find is a free a cheap way to OCR my handwritten notes. I know that handwritten is much more difficult but it would be possible to use supervised learning mon my specific handwriting.
I want something similar for digitization of photos from whiteboarding sessions.
I think it would be an awesome way to capture notes from design sessions while still allowing the fluidity of a real whiteboard.
what I would like to find is a free a cheap way to OCR my handwritten notes. I know that handwritten is much more difficult but it would be possible to use supervised learning mon my specific handwriting.
OneNote's recognition of my handwriting--once described by a tutor as 'dogs dribble'--is nothing short of miraculous.
OneNote only does recognition for search and by text-block, you can't select as in the OP; would love that feature.