alt Hacker NewsI experimented with this exact same approach earlier this year.
It's barely sufficient, because, bluntly, most apps just aren't wired up right.
So you end up having to hand code a lot of specific profiles for specific apps to make this work well, and even then, you don't quite get the right level of detail to make it work out.
Will try this app, to see if it improved on my own approach, but man, the hope levels are low.
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I haven't read about how the Codex Appshots work yet, but this can be used to extract text properly. I guess. How does this idea look to you?
Yeah don't get your hope up too much. I need to push through more cleaning up of what's captured. Let me know how it goes, keen for some feedback
One of the reasons people like TUIs is because the text is always just right there.
I hope in near future _that_ layer of abstraction -- looking at a fairly standard application window with minor UI variations and reasoning about what area / labels within the UI mean what (possibly paired with app documentation) -- could probably become a light-weight fine-tuned vision model it itself that can run fully locally.