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Re: Project Naptha

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Post by conorcleary »

Submitters need to get back to more descriptive titles on HN. If this post is the first and only exposure to this project for a user, "Project Naptha" alone doesn't give me confidence to roll the dice and click on an unknown link unless there are existing comments I can investigate. Thus, chicken and egg, scroll by.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by cyberbanjo »

conorcleary wrote: post #2

Submitters need to get back to more descriptive titles on HN. If this post is the first and only exposure to this project for a user, "Project Naptha" alone doesn't give me confidence to roll the dice and click on an unknown link unless there are existing comments I can investigate. Thus, chicken and egg, scroll by.

Browser extension OCR: From the homepage "Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image. "

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by keyle »

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...

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by holler »

Really cool! I went to try the translate feature but each time I left-click to open the nav menu (macOs) it deselects the text? I know it says right-click but for me it's left-click to open the menu.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by latchkey »

conorcleary wrote: post #2

Submitters need to get back to more descriptive titles on HN. If this post is the first and only exposure to this project for a user, "Project Naptha" alone doesn't give me confidence to roll the dice and click on an unknown link unless there are existing comments I can investigate. Thus, chicken and egg, scroll by.

True, that said, it made it to the front page... and while not everything on the front page is super interesting, it does give it a bit weight on the dice roll fun.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by 1123581321 »

conorcleary wrote: post #2

Submitters need to get back to more descriptive titles on HN. If this post is the first and only exposure to this project for a user, "Project Naptha" alone doesn't give me confidence to roll the dice and click on an unknown link unless there are existing comments I can investigate. Thus, chicken and egg, scroll by.

I never heard of it and I clicked because the name intrigued me. You might benefit from a link preview extension to reduce the friction to explore links before comments.

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by tim-- »

I had this extension on my Chrome browser a few years ago, and was dumbfounded when I thought that Chrome had added the ability to not only OCR PNG files - but also replace the text in them!

Completely forgot that I installed this extension years earlier.

Crazy extension!

Re: Project Naptha

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Post by brian_herman »

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...

Yes I think you can do it in preview too.
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