[HN Gopher] NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool
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       NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool
        
       Author : kitschyred
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-04-27 19:41 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | csdvrx wrote:
       | Is there anything on Linux not based on tesseract for the OCR?
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       | It's not very good. I miss being able to copy/paste from blurry
       | or deformed screenshots of youtube on Windows.
        
         | m-p-3 wrote:
         | Is there any development on Tesseract, or at least on updating
         | the trained models out there? Just curious.
        
           | mmcwilliams wrote:
           | I can't find anything backing this up at the moment but I was
           | under the impression that Google had been upstreaming some
           | development to the project. Open Sans recognition in
           | particular got noticeably more reliable sometime in the last
           | few years.
        
       | bjoli wrote:
       | I had my mind blown by the same functionality in Android. Being
       | able to select text from an app in the app-switching context is
       | amazing.
       | 
       | I will definitely use this.
        
         | bigmattystyles wrote:
         | On Windows with the new PowerToys, win+shift+t does the same
         | thing - works really well!
         | 
         | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-ext...
        
       | yigitkonur35 wrote:
       | It is very nice to have free alternatives to this kind of
       | software. I wanted to ask because I already use terassect, the
       | most basic feature I want in this type of software is that I want
       | to be able to edit the text on the image I screenshot in order to
       | use it while guiding designers, especially in design. I think
       | teras supports this feature, but I have not seen it actively in
       | any project other than Project Naptha, which is not an actively
       | developed project in this regard. I would like to hear if there
       | is a project you know about this and want to share.
        
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