2 ms·
The copy and paste problem is sidestepped in android by the os native ocr, it might become common elsewhere too.
by fulafel 6y ago
The copy and paste problem is sidestepped in android by the os native ocr, it might become common elsewhere too.
- fmakunbound 6y agoI can’t tell if you’re being facetious. Text is rendered to a canvas frame buffer and then the solution to text selection involves OCR?
- davidgay 6y agoAmusingly, the Amiga lacked cut&paste support in most applications, so someone developed a tool that did precisely that. Leading to questions like this: http://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=10580.0 http://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=10580.0
- fulafel 6y agoCab I be facetious and factually describe the current state of affairs simultaneously?
- wizzwizz4 6y agoI mean, that's how MacPaint was going to work. (They eventually ditched “edit text once it's written” entirely, for fear that people would use MacPaint for word processing, but the code was all written.)