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   Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen(github.com)

   321 points by schappim 5y ago|80 comments
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   by schappim 5y ago

   https://github.com/schappim/macocr
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   by schappim 5y ago

   As promised, the Show HN is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27227925
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   by schappim 5y ago

   Super dangerous enclosure. Looks like you could open it with just a fingernail. Australian standards require coincell battery holders to: "have a battery compartment (or other enclosure) that is secured (preferably with a captive screw
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   by schappim 5y ago

   Unfortunately, this is far too accurate.
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   by schappim 5y ago

   Yeah, I only use it for things where the context wouldn't matter. For example grabbing an account number from a document. I've been experimenting w/ CoreImage detectors (mainly for categorisation of scanned documents based on
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   by schappim 5y ago

   Nice, I started with tesseract, but moved to Google Vision as the quality was better. Azure's offering was better for hand written notes.
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   by schappim 5y ago

   Edit: I'll clean the script up and make it available as a "Show HN:" soon.
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   by schappim 5y ago

   This one is hardware and software. I made webUSB postage scales and a webUSB thermal printer. We used to use Dymo label printers etc, but macOS' printer queue would get stuffed up every 200 or so prints. The advantage of a webUSB based
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    by schappim 5y ago

    I made a macOS script that OCRs text on screen. It is super handy for dealing with everything from scanned documents with account numbers to web pages with text in images. When I press F16, I get an image capture cursor, and the area select
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    by schappim 5y ago

    Many thanks. Updated!
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    by schappim 5y ago

    One simple trick™ is to admit when you're wrong or made a mistake as early as possible. Just own it, that way you own the issue and the issue doesn't own you. Doing this is like having a super-power that makes you look both super
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    by schappim 5y ago

    I purchased it sight unseen and it is excellent, super easy to use if you’re committed to using Hotwire/Turbo in your rails app.
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    by schappim 5y ago

    I'm sure I'm missing something here!
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    Show HN: macOS (command line) QRCode reader(github.com)

    4 points by schappim 5y ago|4 comments
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    by schappim 5y ago

    Thanks for confirming Dang!
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    by schappim 5y ago

    Thanks for your hard work Dang. Would vouching for a dev.to link make a difference in this case?
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    by schappim 5y ago

    Good to see folks carrying the torch after: https://openpcr.org/ and the folks at Biocurious: https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/09/23/biohackers-aim-to-ope...
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    by schappim 5y ago

    Zoom doesn't have a great track record here. In the past [1] they'd "(ab)use preinstallation scripts, manually unpack the app using a bundled 7zip and install it to /Applications if the current user is in the admin group
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    by schappim 5y ago

    As a half-Swiss/half-Australian, I'd still go w/ Fastmail. It is not as if Swiss companies have a perfect track record of NOT working w/ three letter agencies based in the US[1]. [1] https://www.washingto
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    by schappim 6y ago

    Hit me up on the email address in my HN profile
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    by schappim 6y ago

    I use a custom Rails app inspirted by Stephen Wolfram's Post: "Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure" [1]. It looks like this [2] (#000000 black interface for mobile due to OLED display). It
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    by schappim 6y ago

    Rails + Rails Jumpstart Pro[1] + Hatchbox (& AWS)[2] + Tailwind UI [1] https://jumpstartrails.com/ [2] https://www.hatchbox.io/ [3] https://tailwindui.com/
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    by schappim 6y ago

    I love this line from the article "but when everyone suspected that the server had crashed, as is often the case..." That must be a pretty big server!
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    by schappim 6y ago

    Dabble DB
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    by schappim 6y ago

    One possibility is that the yield of M1 chips w/ 8GB is low or in short supply. They could be simply using the higher capacity modules as stop-gap. My reasons for thinking this is: 1) In the embedded electronics market (day job), we&#x
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    by schappim 6y ago

    I must be on a different AB test, but Apple really isn't pushing the memory/RAM (even today) in their compare tool [1] or iPad product pages. I'm not saying this is a good thing, it is just a strategy Apple has taken. My gues
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    by schappim 6y ago

    1) They might not. Back in 2018 when they did a similar thing, the larger RAM variants were slightly slower. [1] 2) Not a direct answer, but from memory Apple caculated (in 2018) that moving up to the 1TB required an extra half gig of RAM o
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    by schappim 6y ago

    > I am sure this is done mostly for business reasons. I don't think this is the reason because Apple historically didn't use the amount of RAM in iPads as a differentiator[1]. Also, this is not new (Apple was doing this all the
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    NASA successfully flies Ingenuity drone on Mars(bbc.com)

    2 points by schappim 6y ago|0 comments