Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen
by greggman3 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @04:20AM
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I didn't try the app yet but I use an app called "Yomiwa" to OCR Japanese. The biggest issue I find is that it seems to be trained on black on white images so if I try to OCR a sign with different colors, or some text on a product or menu, it often fails. For example I just tried it on the ingredients of the label of the soda I'm drinking which is white on black and it's completely failing.
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Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen
by vicedvin on Saturday May 22, 2021 @05:22AM
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Masking the background and making text black would solve this. I have used OpenCV for that before.