Grabbing Text from Images with Project Naptha

By Anastasia Salter. I’ve lost a lot of hours to copying text from scans and photos of documents I’ve found on the web or taken for my own records. Some websites (particularly older websites that relied too much on flash or image files for their design) are particularly annoying to cite because nothing can be copied and pasted. While optical character recognition (OCR) software has come a long way, most of what I need isn’t worth the investment or the time of using specialized software. However, this might finally be getting a bit easier now that I’m using the new Project Naptha Chrome browser extension, which integrates a relatively smooth solution to the problem of text recognition into the browser. More...