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Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen by eastendguy on Saturday May 22, 2021 @06:54AM (#27245327)
The problem with Naptha is that the OCR quality of Tesseract (used by Project Naptha) is not very good for screenshots. Historically Tesseract has been optimized for text documents. So the OCR results of this new macOCR app are significantly better.

Another alternative is Copyfish. It is cross-platform and uses cloud ocr:

https://github.com/A9T9/Copyfish

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen by duckfang on Saturday May 22, 2021 @12:36PM (#27248104)
There is 0 reason to use the cloud, unless exfil and selling data is your thing.

The cloud == someone else's computer. Never forget that.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen by eastendguy on Saturday May 22, 2021 @02:24PM (#27249035)
My personal reason for using "the cloud" in this specific case is that the OCR results are significantly better.

> The cloud == someone else's computer.

I think everyone around here knows this and can make their own decisions, if and for what data they use "the cloud".

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen by duckfang on Saturday May 22, 2021 @04:07PM (#27249858)
Be careful speaking about "everyone". You never know who the 10000 are.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen by bori5 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @06:02PM (#27250668)
Not everyone’s in the US
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Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen by stjohnswarts on Saturday May 22, 2021 @07:54PM (#27251295)
Sure but it's fairly assured that 80% at least are from the USA, possibly higher. Also it's fairly easy to extrapolate the premise of "the 10000" to include the rest of the world
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