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Not a Mac user or developer, poking at the source code because I might be interested in building a Linux equivalent. Why is code so damn complicated these days?

• schappim 5y ago
  My tiny contribution is within main.swift. The heavy lifting is done by the CoreImage/Vision API, and a library that interfaces with Screen Capture. You can achieve the same thing using Tesseract on Linux, or even better quality using Google Vision.
  • florin0x01 5y ago
    I'm a noob using Xcode. Loaded the workspace, removed the signing team, everything builds for all schemes but where is the binary?
    • schappim 5y ago
      Does this screenshot[1] answer your question? [1] https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2021-05-22-17-16-06.png https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2021-05-22-17-1...
• usui 5y ago
  Why are you complaining about code that is (hopefully) obviously auto-generated and not "written" by the author, but still necessary nonetheless? It's because you are "Not a Mac user or developer", so we should be a bit more considerate on you Maybe the issue your complaint unexpectedly tries to surface is that many awesome, highly useful projects like this one depend on code that isn't human-readable. I think this is a noteworthy point and should be discussed more often. But then again, having the code in some form of source control /at all/ is far, far better than the alternative, which is depending on some instructions in a README.md or just hoping the user will know how to use XCode properly such that the real contribution of the project is used Maybe your post also somewhat points out the fact that to newcomers or people looking at XCode code (auto-generated or otherwise) for the first time, it's /not/ obvious which files you should be looking at, and so we should give the parent poster some slack. Is this a problem that projects should worry about or take into consideration when auto-generated code starts to mix with non-generated code in source control? N.B.: the parent post was talking about ./Pods/Pods.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj https://github.com/schappim/macOCR/blob/ca9a6379e07a8e1a5eaad5a7ca908f415269c16d/Pods/Pods.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj https://github.com/schappim/macOCR/blob/ca9a6379e07a8e1a5eaa...
• nexuist 5y ago
  This looks like a .xcodeproj file. This isn't source code, it's auto generated metadata for the Xcode IDE. You have to check it into source control because Xcode is dumb and sometimes breaks your project if it can't find its own metadata. The actual code here that isn't just Xcode boilerplate is in this very simple to read file: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR/blob/master/ocr/main.swift https://github.com/schappim/macOCR/blob/master/ocr/main.swif...
• dkarras 5y ago
  That is not the source code, it is XCode IDE project file, you don't need it. This application calls the native macOS libraries to do the OCR so I don't think you'd find anything useful here to do a Linux port - you can certainly use the idea and combine it with a linux compatible OCR library though.