[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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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| 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.
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| I will definitely use this.
| bigmattystyles wrote:
| On Windows with the new PowerToys, win+shift+t does the same
| thing - works really well!
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| 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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