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Show HN: dpScreenOCR – a program to recognize text on the screen

32 points by danpla 4y ago

In a nutshell, dpScreenOCR can recognize text from the selected screen area, and then can copy it to the clipboard, add it to history, or pass it as an argument to an executable.

llagerlof 4y ago
Although I believe this software (dpScreenOCR-1.1.0-win32-2.exe) is fully safe, virustotal is giving 2 false positives (Avast and AVG). I mean, probably part of your users will not install the program because of this. Maybe you want to track the reason and kill these false positives. This guy documented his process: https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/oct/05/dealing-with-antivirus-false-positives#rebuilding-the-installer https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/oct/05/dealing-with-...
- danpla 4y ago
  Oh, thank you. I tried the ZIP on VirusTotal, and it looks like the false positives are triggered for Qt platform plugins, namely qwindowsvistastyle.dll qwindows.dll: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2adff5ef8aaf1c7674422cdd6ed35a9d218e5b1c354e5ddb8c73c55e5c2a69c5/relations https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2adff5ef8aaf1c7674422cdd... I'll try to figure out what to do about that.
Lakuma 4y ago
Works great, thank you! Is there a way to configure the look of the capture box? It's a little bulky for my tastes.
- danpla 4y ago
  You're welcome! For now, it's impossible to configure the capture box, but I can add an option to change its thickness in the next version.
kretaceous 4y ago
As a long time user, this makes me so happy. Congratulations, Daniel! I've been using v1.0.2 for almost over a year. I remember asking about tray icon support when it was already implemented[1]. I have been eagerly waiting for the release since then![2] Thanks for the awesome, lightweight tool. 1: https://github.com/danpla/dpscreenocr/issues/15 https://github.com/danpla/dpscreenocr/issues/15 2: Although I got impatient and have been using the manually built version with the tray :p
- danpla 4y ago
  You're welcome!
danpla 4y ago
I just updated the Windows installer to fix long startup time and high drive load. Sorry for the inconvenience.

32 points by danpla 4y ago

In a nutshell, dpScreenOCR can recognize text from the selected screen area, and then can copy it to the clipboard, add it to history, or pass it as an argument to an executable.

llagerlof 4y ago

Although I believe this software (dpScreenOCR-1.1.0-win32-2.exe) is fully safe, virustotal is giving 2 false positives (Avast and AVG). I mean, probably part of your users will not install the program because of this. Maybe you want to track the reason and kill these false positives. This guy documented his process: https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/oct/05/dealing-with-antivirus-false-positives#rebuilding-the-installer https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/oct/05/dealing-with-...

danpla 4y ago
Oh, thank you. I tried the ZIP on VirusTotal, and it looks like the false positives are triggered for Qt platform plugins, namely qwindowsvistastyle.dll qwindows.dll: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2adff5ef8aaf1c7674422cdd6ed35a9d218e5b1c354e5ddb8c73c55e5c2a69c5/relations https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2adff5ef8aaf1c7674422cdd... I'll try to figure out what to do about that.

Lakuma 4y ago

Works great, thank you! Is there a way to configure the look of the capture box? It's a little bulky for my tastes.

danpla 4y ago
You're welcome! For now, it's impossible to configure the capture box, but I can add an option to change its thickness in the next version.

kretaceous 4y ago

As a long time user, this makes me so happy. Congratulations, Daniel! I've been using v1.0.2 for almost over a year. I remember asking about tray icon support when it was already implemented[1]. I have been eagerly waiting for the release since then![2] Thanks for the awesome, lightweight tool. 1: https://github.com/danpla/dpscreenocr/issues/15 https://github.com/danpla/dpscreenocr/issues/15 2: Although I got impatient and have been using the manually built version with the tray :p

danpla 4y ago
You're welcome!

danpla 4y ago

I just updated the Windows installer to fix long startup time and high drive load. Sorry for the inconvenience.