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PhraseLens v0.5.2 — OCR that reads Chinese and Japanese

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@mxggle mxggle released this 22 Aug 08:34
· 26 commits to main since this release

Fixed

  • Screenshot OCR reads Chinese and Japanese again. The recognizer was handed a
    fixed language list with English at its head. Vision does not try those languages in
    turn — it picks one model from the head of the list — so a Latin language in first
    place meant CJK text was dropped outright: a screenshot of Chinese or Japanese came
    back empty as "no text was found", and one that mixed scripts kept the English and
    turned the rest into glyph soup. The script is now detected from the screenshot
    itself, and a shot carrying Japanese, both Chinese scripts and English at once reads
    correctly.
  • A capture could be read before it had finished being written. screencapture hands
    the interactive selection to a helper and can exit before that helper has flushed the
    PNG, so the single check for the finished file sometimes ran first and the capture was
    reported as cancelled. It now waits for the file to settle.
  • A click that never became a drag no longer raises an error. The empty capture it
    writes used to travel all the way to a failed recognition; it is treated as a
    cancelled selection now, the same as pressing Escape.

The app is signed but not notarized, so the first launch after downloading needs a right-click → Open.

Full changelog: v0.5.1...v0.5.2