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Why don't any good 'URL Finder' apps exist. 1) Open URL Finder app 2) Take picture 3) URL finder identifies all the urls in the picture. 4) Your browse
by user49598 14y ago
Why don't any good 'URL Finder' apps exist.
1) Open URL Finder app
2) Take picture
3) URL finder identifies all the urls in the picture.
4) Your browser opens those urls
These QR codes aren't being used for robot orientation or shipment tracking, they don't need to be so fault tolerant. Why not just OCR plain text?
- a3_nm 14y agoBecause OCR is hard. Finding and decoding QR codes is way easier and more resilient.
- Karunamon 14y agoIt takes ages for most camera apps to decode a QR code designed for ease of reading and ubiquity - what makes you think it would somehow be faster to do OCR on arbitrarily sized and styled fonts?