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Ask HN: Know of any tool that uses NNs to alter text in images?

3 pointsby tbwritingover 2 years ago
I&#x27;ve seen Facebook&#x27;s TextStyleBrush (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.louisbouchard.ai&#x2F;textstylebrush), along with a some specific papers with algorithms that do this (STEFANN [https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prasunroy.github.io&#x2F;stefann&#x2F;], SwapText [https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openaccess.thecvf.com&#x2F;content_CVPR_2020&#x2F;papers&#x2F;Yang_SwapText_Image_Based_Texts_Transfer_in_Scenes_CVPR_2020_paper.pdf]).<p>Curious about whether anyone knows of a user-friendly tool out there that does this, e.g. you feed it a photo, some boundaries for the text to be changed, and the new text to replace it. Haven&#x27;t found one, considering building.

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sargstuffover 2 years ago
Picked a few articles from results of search engine terms, &quot;app to translate using camera&quot; and &quot;finding blocks of text in an image using python&quot;<p>Google Lens mobile translate app [1] via smartphone.<p>Article walking through how Google Lens does the translation.[2]<p>Article about the text box boundary(s) [3]<p>[1] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;translate&#x2F;google-translates-instant-camera-translation-gets-upgrade&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;translate&#x2F;google-translates-ins...</a><p>[2] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;technovators&#x2F;scene-text-detection-in-python-with-east-and-craft-cbe03dda35d5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;technovators&#x2F;scene-text-detection-in-pyth...</a><p>[3] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nanonets.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;deep-learning-ocr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nanonets.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;deep-learning-ocr&#x2F;</a>