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I’m frustrated that there is no easy way to capture text from pictures. Thank you for building this. This type of functionality should be integrated or readily

I’m frustrated that there is no easy way to capture text from pictures. Thank you for building this. This type of functionality should be integrated or readily available in MacOS. I would love to have a way to do basic math operations, unit conversions, etc. without resorting to write them in spotlight. For example hovering over a price, it should convert it to a different currency. Or compare similar types of informations from different sources. Your solution goes in this direction, thanks!

schappim 5y ago
You’re welcome. It should be pretty trivial for someone to hook this into https://insect.sh/ https://insect.sh/.
replwoacause 5y ago
There is an app called Text Sniper which works really well and is available on SetApp. I use it constantly and love it.
maven29 5y ago
https://antimatter15.com/project/project-naptha/ https://antimatter15.com/project/project-naptha/ https://projectnaptha.com/ https://projectnaptha.com/ We had this fully client-side in the browser all the way back in 2013.
- eastendguy 5y ago
  The problem with Naptha is that the OCR quality of Tesseract (used by Project Naptha) is not very good for screenshots. Historically Tesseract has been optimized for text documents. So the OCR results of this new macOCR app are significantly better. Another alternative is Copyfish. It is cross-platform and uses cloud ocr: https://github.com/A9T9/Copyfish https://github.com/A9T9/Copyfish
  - duckfang 5y ago
    There is 0 reason to use the cloud, unless exfil and selling data is your thing. The cloud == someone else's computer. Never forget that.
    - eastendguy 5y ago
      My personal reason for using "the cloud" in this specific case is that the OCR results are significantly better. > The cloud == someone else's computer. I think everyone around here knows this and can make their own decisions, if and for what data they use "the cloud".
      - duckfang 5y ago
        Be careful speaking about "everyone". You never know who the 10000 are. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
        bori5 5y ago
        Not everyone’s in the US
        stjohnswarts 5y ago
        Sure but it's fairly assured that 80% at least are from the USA, possibly higher. Also it's fairly easy to extrapolate the premise of "the 10000" to include the rest of the world
loraxclient 5y ago
So there actually is a very quiet functionality hiding in MacOS Notes.app I noticed recently. If you take any screenshot to clipboard that includes some text, then paste it into Notes, it will silently name the resulting image file using the text pictured. Not terribly useful but I did find it helpful once while taking screenshots for documentation.

schappim 5y ago

You’re welcome. It should be pretty trivial for someone to hook this into https://insect.sh/ https://insect.sh/.

replwoacause 5y ago

There is an app called Text Sniper which works really well and is available on SetApp. I use it constantly and love it.

maven29 5y ago

https://antimatter15.com/project/project-naptha/ https://antimatter15.com/project/project-naptha/ https://projectnaptha.com/ https://projectnaptha.com/ We had this fully client-side in the browser all the way back in 2013.

eastendguy 5y ago
The problem with Naptha is that the OCR quality of Tesseract (used by Project Naptha) is not very good for screenshots. Historically Tesseract has been optimized for text documents. So the OCR results of this new macOCR app are significantly better. Another alternative is Copyfish. It is cross-platform and uses cloud ocr: https://github.com/A9T9/Copyfish https://github.com/A9T9/Copyfish
- duckfang 5y ago
  There is 0 reason to use the cloud, unless exfil and selling data is your thing. The cloud == someone else's computer. Never forget that.
  - eastendguy 5y ago
    My personal reason for using "the cloud" in this specific case is that the OCR results are significantly better. > The cloud == someone else's computer. I think everyone around here knows this and can make their own decisions, if and for what data they use "the cloud".
    - duckfang 5y ago
      Be careful speaking about "everyone". You never know who the 10000 are. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
      - bori5 5y ago
        Not everyone’s in the US
        stjohnswarts 5y ago
        Sure but it's fairly assured that 80% at least are from the USA, possibly higher. Also it's fairly easy to extrapolate the premise of "the 10000" to include the rest of the world

loraxclient 5y ago

So there actually is a very quiet functionality hiding in MacOS Notes.app I noticed recently. If you take any screenshot to clipboard that includes some text, then paste it into Notes, it will silently name the resulting image file using the text pictured. Not terribly useful but I did find it helpful once while taking screenshots for documentation.