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I think the animation makes it pretty clear how this works… But I do wonder how the baseline coordinates are established? In more realistic applications you’d
by epgui 4y ago
I think the animation makes it pretty clear how this works… But I do wonder how the baseline coordinates are established?
In more realistic applications you’d have to deal with things like text that is not exactly aligned with pixel boundaries, and different anti-aliasing methods.
- kleiba 4y agoAnd different fonts.
- kamray23 4y agoWith such heavy pixellation being overcome, you'd have to have a seriously different font to avoid the general patterns arising from basic letter shapes. I think simply guessing "times" vs "helvetica" brings you close enough to guess the letters. Optimize score by shuffling the baselines around a bit and go through all the letters to find the right ones and you should be good. Work in blocks of 3-5 letters while shuffling them around and stretching the spacing, you might even have a fairly good guess.
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- _aavaa_ 4y agoI think the answer is the in most applications you’d have a much larger screenshot from which you can glean this information. E.g. a page to do fold recognition on, or even to figure out what software (e.g. Gmail) and to look up what font the software uses.