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It could be using accessibility APIs instead of OCR. That seems like the sensible thing to me.
by modeless 3y ago
It could be using accessibility APIs instead of OCR. That seems like the sensible thing to me.
- ShamelessC 3y agoWhat? Don’t accessibility API’s just do OCR?
- OmarShehata 3y agoThey largely use semantic metadata (like alt tags on images). This is part of why the "google docs is moving to canvas rendering"[1] caused a big stir there (accessibility would need to be implemented from scratch, possibly by using a hidden parallel DOM) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27129858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27129858