[zawerf]

Do you happen to know about project naptha? It actually seems more advanced than what you have right now because it can detect text regions too.

For example in https://projectnaptha.com/, right click on the text on any of the demo images to erase, translate, or rewrite it.

Both your solution and their's produce blurry artifacts when it fails to inpaint/erase the text correctly. I wonder how you'd would sell this to marketing agencies etc if it can't produce pixel perfect results? Isn't it easier for them to just edit the text from the source photoshop file instead?

[hbornfree]

Yes we do know of Project Naptha. Infact I personally used it a couple of years ago. imgtranslate also has a text region identification module (through clustering mechanisms) but I have to admit it's not that great at the moment. So I've hidden it.

As far as inpainting goes, we should soon be switching to GANs which produce structurally more accurate and less blurry results.

The problem with photoshop is that - You need a lof of fonts installed. - It doesn't always render the non-latin fonts correctly - It's expensive

[egfx]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if this IS using project naphta behind the scene. Since it's pretty much the only open source solution that does this in js. Wrapping this in a pay for play service and not providing a github to the HN community, meh.

[hbornfree]

It isn't. ANd as mentioned in the blog post, we want to discuss how it works in the next post and open source as much as we can. We're built on open-source stuff after all. :)

[amit2319]

looking forward to that post.