Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text
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Because quoting whole images is stupid, and replacing it by hand is also stupid.
Considering all the memes in the whole internet use single font, applying some very basic OCR should be enough.
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@Gąska I wanted to reply with a specific Syndrome macro that has captions overlapped to the point of being unreadable, just to prove a point. But I can't find it, so all you get is these words of defeat.
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@coderpatsy having a feature that works 90% of times and the other 10% don't really affect usability is better than having no feature.
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@Gąska Would OCR even work that often in ideal conditions?
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@coderpatsy there's only one way to find out ;)
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@coderpatsy OCR have evolved a lot in the last years, with normal image macros you can get 99%
But if you want something ready to use and free with little effort I think there isn't anything good.
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@coderpatsy @gaska try this one here, you can upload an image:
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That's good enough for quotes IMO
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@wharrgarbl it's free to use manually - the API part requires you to sign up with your credit card. I don't think automating the manual interface is allowed by ToS.
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@Gąska Its api access is free up to 1000 uses a month.
@ben_lubar any idea how many images we upload in a month? We could just stop doing it after the 1000th anyway.
I guess the answer will be PRs welcome.
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@wharrgarbl said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
@Gąska Its api access is free up to 1000 uses a month.
Yes, but you have to sign up with your credit card.
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it glued words that are too near
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@Gąska said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
Yes, but you have to sign up with your credit card.
I see no problem with using @ben_lubar's card for that
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@wharrgarbl I think REITH imgfp all the timef
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@wharrgarbl said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
@Gąska Its api access is free up to 1000 uses a month.
@ben_lubar any idea how many images we upload in a month?
It will for damn sure be more than 1000 if we had this limit.
We could just stop doing it after the 1000th anyway.
Oh, yeah, no one here would be upset by that.
I guess the answer will be PRs welcome.
Not from me.
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@boomzilla said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
@wharrgarbl said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
I guess the answer will be PRs welcome.
Not from me.
PRs welcome.
Not necessarily accepted, but welcome.
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I tried to find some free solution that runs client-side. I think Tesseract.js is a perfect match for our forum:
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@Gąska suitable levels of
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I just found this: https://ocr.space/ocrapi - it managed to get the meme above almost right. And they don't ask for credit card.
Now I want to make that plugin.
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@Gąska other than the 25k a month they allow for free... doubt we'll stay below that.
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@Arantor I'm curious about the actual number of uploads. To minimize it:
- trigger only on the first time it's quoted
- use image fingerprinting and don't process the same image twice
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@wharrgarbl it might be worth asking @ben_lubar how many uploads were done each month for the last three months to get a reasonable figure for that.
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@Arantor if we OCRed only the images when quoting, and ask the user each time, and saved results for later use, the only problem would be trolls deliberately hitting limit. We could detect these "power users" and ask them for their own API keys.
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@Gąska trolls? HERE?
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@Gąska said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
and ask the user each time
That would be annoying. Better wait for people with too much time in their hands to implement a free one.
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@wharrgarbl said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
@Gąska said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
and ask the user each time
That would be annoying. Better wait for people with too much time in their hands to implement a free one.
I just found one
@darkmatter said in The official vote balance topic:
Is it any wonder I've got
TOO MUCH
TIME ON MY HANDS
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@ben_lubar said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
@Gąska said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
ocrapi
O'Crapi
I keep reading it as "OC rape"
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@wharrgarbl said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
@Gąska said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
and ask the user each time
That would be annoying. Better wait for people with too much time in their hands to implement a free one.
You know what else would be annoying? If it tried to OCR pictures that definitely have no text in them.
Instead of popup dialog, there could be a button in editor, between iron cross and trapdoor. Less invasive, less discoverable.
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@Gąska said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
Less invasive, less discoverable.
Now you're talking the open source way!
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@Gąska said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
Instead of popup dialog, there could be a button in editor, between iron cross and trapdoor.
And while we're at it, make the icons on the buttons even smaller (they still seem to use about a third of the height/width, E_NOT_ENOUGH_
WHITESAFE_SPACE). And mix a few more unrelated and confusing actions in there, such as move the ? in the compose window itself next to the ! in the list of buttons (that would go well with the iron cross).
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@wharrgarbl I see that and think, "where is the camera located for this shot?!?" :P
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@wharrgarbl said in Feature request: make quoted image macros turn into plain text:
- trigger only on the first time it's quoted
Trigger warnings thread is
