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Re: Project Naptha

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Post by oittaa »

modeless wrote: post #13
keyle wrote: post #4

Interesting but I thought my mac already does this? Maybe just M1 and Monterey. I was trying to debug some image the other day, upon inspection I got confused by the shadow dom doing weird stuff, but only in safari; to then realise that it was macOS converting the text in the image to text in shadow dom! ... Good/bad experience report I suppose. ref. https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/preview/prvw625a5b2c/m...

Android does this too, though you have to go into the app switcher for it to work. Super useful.

It would be great if Google allowed that everywhere. Does anyone know if it's on the roadmap?

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by irae »

keyle wrote: post #4

Interesting but I thought my mac already does this? Maybe just M1 and Monterey. I was trying to debug some image the other day, upon inspection I got confused by the shadow dom doing weird stuff, but only in safari; to then realise that it was macOS converting the text in the image to text in shadow dom! ... Good/bad experience report I suppose. ref. https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/preview/prvw625a5b2c/m...

Macs and iPhones have been doing selectable text for a while now. Especially if you use Safari instead of Chrome. All images have selectable text since Monterey and iOS 15. It existed to a lesser extent in previous years.

Some of the features Naptha aims to do are not part of it though, like translating, removing the text from the image, and some other right click behavior. On the other hand, Apple is using this without any connection, which Napha says it is availble but with degraded quality and slower speed. Apple probably uses their optimized ML silicon, so I would imagine is is more battery efficient for using on the go.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by irae »

lancesells wrote: post #65
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #52

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.

Even though I watch WWDC every year and the iPhone release event, I was surprised with how it works, and how fast it is. Basically hovering my mouse over any image (ouside of Google Chrome/Brave/Firefox) changes the cursor to selectable after half a second or so.

Took me a while to get used to. But it has ben actually useful a number of times. My most common use-case (as a front-end developer) is when people send me screenshots of bugs, and I can select, copy, paste texts from the screenshots to find the source code files =)

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by irae »

WesternWind wrote: post #47
adastra22 wrote: post #33

> Unfortunately, your browser is not yet supported Safari on macOS.

Same with Firefox on MacOS here.

Very interesting that Firefox would have this level of integration with the OS. Firefox of old was criticized specifically for being completelly not native to macOS. Times change. I might give Firefox a shot in the recent future.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by eastendguy »

keyle wrote: post #4

Interesting but I thought my mac already does this? Maybe just M1 and Monterey. I was trying to debug some image the other day, upon inspection I got confused by the shadow dom doing weird stuff, but only in safari; to then realise that it was macOS converting the text in the image to text in shadow dom! ... Good/bad experience report I suppose. ref. https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/preview/prvw625a5b2c/m...

The Mac built-in tool does not work on Youtube videos, which is one of my use cases for the Copyfish OCR tool. This, and the integrated translation.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by Ajedi32 »

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+

Yeah, I wonder if there's a more modern version of this somewhere. On-device OCR is probably good enough now that a fully-offline-by-default version of this might make sense, and that's something I might actually use.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by [deleted] »

DocTomoe wrote: post #36
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…

For Windows, Google used to have something like that. Because it's Google, it has since been discontinued [1]. Mac's finder is close to what you have described, and works reasonably well for me. On Unix, this sounds like something a grep one-liner (maybe with some document depacking/packing pipe for Office documents) would do. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop

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Re: Project Naptha

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Post by wahnfrieden »

lancesells wrote: post #65
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #52

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.

it has a full dev sdk as well

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by wanderlust2021 »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #77
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+

Yeah, I wonder if there's a more modern version of this somewhere. On-device OCR is probably good enough now that a fully-offline-by-default version of this might make sense, and that's something I might actually use.

Copyfish uses offline OCr.
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