I find the most common thing I use ai for is to give me the text from a screenshot due to websites putting important information in a manner that does not allow copy and paste of it. So I should completely not need to do this but it comes up a lot.
Man, before “AI” became a marketing gimmick,
Samsung Note devices allowed you to use the S-pen to circle text and extract it.
I remember using this feature at least a decade ago!
I think smart devices often have this but its pay for ease with computers. I have several times devled into ocr and setup was a bitch. Since the chatbots do it easily it becomes my most used features. its a bit like with home assitants that I mostly ask it to set a timer.
Yeah, AI text extraction can be very powerful. It’s arguably the thing that neural network systems are best at, and one of the first things. We got them to do.
There’s alot of promise in using this kind of tech for quickly digitizing massive swathes of books. The more complicated part, however, is converting any images in-layed in the text.
If you are using Windows: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-extractor
nice but I finally made the jump away but there is likely something. Not really less infuriating though since the hoops should just not need to be jumped through. I guess im mainly annoyed that the web increasingly is less text and more media.
I agree! Solving tech issues leads to searching the net and all too often the results are a video about the solution when text is all you need. Watching a video just to see what they type is very mildlyinfuriating.
If you’re on macOS, you can select text from an image directly in Preview.
oh that sounds nice. I mean there is plenty of ocr out there but I never had an free and easy one on windows but I am on linux now.
If you are using a chromium based browser, project naphta allows you to select text in images directly in the browser.
this is working very well and saving me some mouse clicks. thanks.
Can’t you just copy it as normal when holding alt or control (can’t remember)? There is an option in firefox about:config to ignore what sites want and re-enable copy.
nope. not when they are images.
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