In a sense that's kind of like what a human can do: we can recognize that a sign bears written language without knowing what language it's written in, never mind what it means." "It runs an algorithm called the Stroke Width Transform, invented by Microsoft Research in 2008, which is capable of identifying regions of text in a language-agnostic manner. "The primary feature of Project Naptha is actually the text detection, rather than optical character recognition," Kwok wrote. It uses something called optical character recognition (OCR) - that is, the kind of software that allows printed material to be scanned as text documents and PDF conversion - but that's not the key to how Project Naptha works. He started work on a project that would become Project Naptha - a Chrome extension that allows you to select and copy text on images. It wasn't about images - but it did give MIT student Kevin Kwok an idea.
Last year, XKCD posted a single-panel comic about absentmindedly selecting text when browsing the web. (Credit: Batman and Robin Must Die! image by DC Comics screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Australia)Ī Chrome extension called Project Naptha allows you to highlight and copy text from an image, with more features on the way.
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