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by RandomBookmarks 5y ago
Sikuli is good for desktop automation. For browser automation an extension based solution (such as this one) is easier to use.
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by RandomBookmarks 5y ago
Such a thing already exists. The ui.vision extension is roughly the same, but it runs locally (no cloud): https://ui.vision/rpa/docs/selenium-ide/capturescreenshot
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by RandomBookmarks 5y ago
I like the name. But how is this extension different from iMacros, Selenium IDE or UI.vision? These extensions are some well-known browser automation tools, each with > 100K users. Did you look at them and decided to do something differe
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by RandomBookmarks 7y ago
Please be accurate. Correct would be: They removed a book they consider anti-semitic. That is quite different from what you stated. But great to include the source.
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by RandomBookmarks 8y ago
How about https://ocr.space/tablerecognition It returns table data line by line.
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by RandomBookmarks 8y ago
You can try the free ocr api at https://ocr.space/ocrapi
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by RandomBookmarks 8y ago
"The primary entry point for this API is a file picker (i.e. a chooser)." ...so what would be difference to today, where a user can "upload" files to the browser's local storage, and then the web app can work with t
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by RandomBookmarks 8y ago
With Abbyy and ocr.space Local there are good and (for companies) affordable local OCR solutions available. There is really no need to use online(!) OCR for sensitive data. Plus, local ocr is faster.
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by RandomBookmarks 8y ago
But the website says: Your license comes with a year’s worth of updates. Once that year is up, you can keep using the last version of Sketch you downloaded, forever. That sounds ok to me.
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by RandomBookmarks 8y ago
Sikuli's big advantage is that it is cross-platform. If you are on Windows, KantuX does the same but optimised for Windows desktop automation.
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by RandomBookmarks 8y ago
Web browser macros! ...to automate logins plus some daily and weekly reporting and repetitive "check something" tasks. Once set up, macros are a huge time and typing saver. Formerly I used iMacros for this, and now the open-source
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
I should have explained this. The linked page allows you to try out several online OCR services instantly and compare their results with an overlay. This includes Google Cloud vision and MS Azure. My idea was that anyone can use this link t
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
2015.... A quick test gives me much better results today with Google cloud vision: https://ocr.space/compare-ocr-software
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
The "best tool" is different for web developers and non-coders. If you are a non-technical person that just needs some data there is: (1) hosted services like mozenda (2) visual automation tools like Kantu Web Automation (which in
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
The ability to create searchable PDFs is very useful and convenient. But creating searchable PDFs does not require a deep understanding of the document format (like column detection etc). You just place the words at the right coordinates of
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
"The common element in all these deaths is a gun. But the causes are very different, and that means the solutions must be, too." Nonsense... Proof: Any other country that has introduced strict gun control. It makes all the numbers
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
Nope... I am actually happy to admit that I am a below average driver (as driving is sooo boring), and from what I read, the AI is already driving better than me - if used in the conditions it is designed for.
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
Birkenstock does not mind anyone selling cheaper sandals, but they do mind that "after deeming that Amazon wasn’t doing enough to guard against fakes."... which is actually reason I buy less on Amazon these days. I can never be su
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
+1 If time is an issue I would first migrate to a C# (or even VB.NET) based desktop app, and then later (if needed) add a web front end with ASP.NET
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
FWIW, here is a similar project done in C#: https://github.com/A9T9/OpenCV-Face-andmore-Tracker
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
In the "better than Tesseract" category is also Microsoft Azure OCR (not as good as Google) and the OCR.space OCR API (also not as good as Google, but 100* times cheaper/free, and supports PDF). The best - and most expensive
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
Progress in this area is very slow, but there is progress. Example: Some court proceedings in Germany can now be done in English: http://www.fgvw.de/en/news/archive-2015/the-introduction-of-...
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
Now that is interesting. From the tender specification PDF doc: 3.1. Subject The subject of the contract is to provide the Commission with technical expertise in the field of: i. Search Engine Optimisation ("SEO"); ii. Search Engi
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
It could be the algorithm: Maybe the original EU story got many downvotes from HN users that work at Google?
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
It seems German car companies are trying hard to not become the next Nokia. Just recently Bosch, Mercedes and Porsche joined forces with local universities in the "Cyber Valley" initiative: https://a9t9.com/blog&#x
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Facebook joins Germany's “Cyber Valley” initiative - a new Silicon Valley clone(a9t9.com)
1 points by RandomBookmarks 9y ago|0 comments
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
For C#, there is also CEFSharp. This is used, for example, by the image(recognition)-driven Kantu automation: https://a9t9.com/kantu/web-automation
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Social bots: Germany plans labeling requirement for automated social media posts(a9t9.com)
1 points by RandomBookmarks 9y ago|0 comments
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
Because other people know that the mutually agreed deadline for the 2% spending target is 2024. Now is 2017. >Although to be fair, the net number of lives saved by military funding is debatable.) That is the 2nd, and maybe more importa
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by RandomBookmarks 9y ago
>it takes to even get a basic understanding of what the subtitles say? The main challenge with Chinese is that - unlike any Western language - you can not guess the characters you do not know. You either know it or you don't. Only t

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