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by a9t9 6y ago
Nice overview. "Freemium is a harder model to implement in open source, since the source is, well, open, but we do see this in things like WordPress...." => Just to add another flavor: The Freemium model is working well for us
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by a9t9 7y ago
"they're near impossible to monetize "... I would not say so. => Our UI (test) automation/RPA software consists of a totally free open-source extension for web automation plus a paid cross-platform binary file that ad
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by a9t9 7y ago
Very nice idea. As an ISV with a freemium open-source extension, I would happily pay for an official security review that I could present to our users. Our extension is secure by design but having a 3rd-party expert (e. g. Google or Firefox
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Show HN: Automate anything on your desktop – with a Chrome browser extension(a9t9.com)
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Show HN: Adding Visual UI Testing to Selenium IDE with WebAssembly(a9t9.com)
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Show HN: Visual UI Testing with WebAssembly and Selenium IDE(a9t9.com)
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by a9t9 8y ago
Our initial tests were with standard template matching algorithms. With the Javavscript implementation we were stuck in the 60 seconds+ range per image search. With WebGL it was ~0.5s on a "good" machine and ~6s or "did not w
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by a9t9 8y ago
Just to mention a real life use case: We are using WebAssembly for the image recognition features in our Visual UI Testing browser extension "Kantu". Before switching to WA, we tested many other approaches, including WebGL (old de
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by a9t9 8y ago
I am not the op, but (faster) WebAssembly could turn out to be a big thing for browser extensions. For example, we are just in the process of adding WebAssembly powered image search to our Kantu Selenium IDE to allow for visual testing. We
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by a9t9 9y ago
Agree - startup alley is not the place to meet (non startup) customers. I have been to Startup Alley once with my previous company. We managed to get exactly 0 new customers out of it. So on this point, totally agree with you. I did not exp
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by a9t9 9y ago
Another Jekyll advantage: Jekyll it makes it easy to host a blog under your main domain.com/blog, without the need to use a subdomain, without the need to fiddle with Wordpress and without the need to switch your whole website to a (ne
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by a9t9 9y ago
3 months seems long. We ported our Copyfish extension to Firefox recently, and the approval process took only ~10 days. I think first feedback took about a week. The reviewer replied with constructive feedback and we had to change a few sma
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by a9t9 9y ago
Extension can/could read all data that you enter in websites. So you should only install extensions from trusted sources/developers. And/or: What I do is to have one Chrome profile for important websites (e. g. online banking
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by a9t9 9y ago
Not very long... Assert, frame/iframe and EVAL support are next on the list. Plus fixing any bugs that might show up. For bug reports and feature requests you can email us (team AT a9t9.com) or simply open a github ticket: https:&#x2F
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by a9t9 9y ago
Thanks for testing ;) The documentation is still very basic. I made a quick screencast just now and put it on https://a9t9.com/kantu/web-automation/chrome#video In Chrome, you first navigate to the page that you
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Show HN: Open-Source Selenium IDE Light Extension for Chrome, Kantu for Chrome(chrome.google.com)
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by a9t9 9y ago
There is simply no good OCR engine available that can run inside a Chrome or Firefox extension. The best available is Tesseract.js. And while this engine is fantastic as a project, its recognition rate does not come close to what is availab
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by a9t9 9y ago
Actually, based on my tests, there are only a few good services: Abbyy (best recognition rate but by far most expensive), Google Cloud Vision (second best recognition rate), Microsoft OCR and... our OCR.space service with a very generous f
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by a9t9 9y ago
Done. In addition, the email listed on https://github.com/A9T9 also reaches me.
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by a9t9 9y ago
> When used on a video does it keep a history of all OCRed text? Not yet - but this feature is already on my todo list ;) Thanks for the hint about the chinese forums!
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by a9t9 9y ago
I understand that hosted OCR, just like SaaS in general, is not suitable for every use case. On the other hand, the OCR.space OCR API has a very strict privacy policy: https://ocr.space/privacypolicy - All uploaded images
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by a9t9 9y ago
Well, at least this confirms that the screenshots are not manipulated ;) The tricky part for the OCR in this example is the diverse background, as the Chinese characters are directly inside the movie. Your comment is interesting, as the ori
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Show HN: Copyfish – Extract text from images, videos or PDF(addons.mozilla.org)
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Show HN: Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF(chrome.google.com)
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Show HN: Picture-driven web testing (~like Sikuli and Selenium inside the browser)(a9t9.com)
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by a9t9 10y ago
Author here. Yeah, Sikuli was one of the role models for Kantu. The way I see it is that Kantu combines the usability of iMacros (which I created years ago) with the no-compromise computer-vision approach of Sikuli. The key difference betwe
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Show HN: Kantu – Picture-driven web automation, web testing and web scraping(a9t9.com)
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Meet the man behind Pleco(魚), the revolutionary $100 Chinese learning app (2014)(techinasia.com)
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by a9t9 11y ago
Update: I confirmed that Microsoft's OCR.dll is indeed part of Windows Server 2016. More info: http://blog.a9t9.com/2015/10/microsoft-ocr-on-windows-server...
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by a9t9 11y ago
Yep. -> Fixed.

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