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Doesn't work great. Went to reddit's advice animal page to try it out and it doesn't seem to work with livememe (I think they have an invisible layer over their images to try and block hot linking).

Here is a copy/paste example from imgur:

http://i.imgur.com/sKQXx8v.jpg

Top: vou SAID w[ W[R[ |[AVINĞ`ON TIM[TOAV

Bottom: TN[ FACTTNATl'M MAWING TNISM[M[ g INST[AD of DRIVING D[TERMIN[D TN#rWASA ll[

Maybe it needs to be a certain font for better results. Still pretty cool. Hopefully all the kinks get worked out. I would definitely find this useful.

EDIT: need to make sure the language is set to "internet meme" and it works much better.



By default it uses Ocrad.js, a pure javascript OCR engine (ported via emscripten, see http://antimatter15.github.io/ocrad.js/demo.html). But if you right click on the selection and change the language to "Internet Meme", it should transcribe it correctly (note that this sends the selection off to a server for remote processing- It's not the default for privacy and scalability considerations at the moment).


Ah, much better!

Top: YOU SAID WE WERE LEAVING'ON TIME:TODAY

Bottom: THE FACT THAT I'M MAKING THIS MEME INSTEAD OF DRIVING DETERMINED THAT WAS A LIE

Next time I'll RTFM.


Mine automatically selects the appropriate language on the meme images. Including your link. Updated already?


I tried your same sample image. The top came out much better than the bottom:

YOU SAID WE WERE LEAVING'ON TIME:TODAY

TN[ FACTTNAT |'M MAWING TNIS M[M[ INST[AD of DRIVING D[TERMIN[D TN#rWASA ll[

I imagine that the thick outline of the font makes it hard to detect the edge of the letters, especially since it obscures the true "background".

e: using the Internet Meme language worked much better!

YOU SAID WE WERE LEAVING'ON TIME:TODAY

(:/J

THE FACT THAT I'M MAKING THIS MEME INSTEAD OF DRIVING DETERMINED THAT WAS A LIE




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