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Being the first of its kind, Project Naptha is a browser extension software for Google Chrome that allow users to highlight, copy, edit and translate text from within images. It was created by developer Kevin Kwok, and released on April 2014 as a Chrome add-on. This software was first made available only on Google Chrome, downloadable from the Chrome Web Store. It was then made available on Mozilla Firefox, downloadable from the Mozilla Firefox add-ons repository but soon removed from the repository. The reason behind the removal remains unknown and it is currently unsure if development for the software to be supported on other Internet Server will continue. Currently, it is still not supported on other Internet servers such as Safari or the Internet Explorer. This web browser extension uses advanced computing imaging technology, which is the use of the computer as an instrument. This technology is widely used in fields such as the art arena. Digital imaging technology has been employed to produce hardcopy art, and the identification of these works. By adopting several Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithms, including libraries developed by Microsoft Research and Google, it automatically identifies text in images on the web. This OCR enables the build-up of a model of text regions, words and letters from all images. The OCR technology that Project Naptha adopts is a slightly differentiated technology that are used in software like Google Drive and Microsoft OneNote to facilitate and analyse text within images. Project Naptha also make use of a method called ''Stroke Width Transform (SWT)'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=149305 )〕 developed by Microsoft Research in 2008 as a form of text detection. ==Origin of name== The name Naptha is derived from Naphtha, which is a general term that originated few thousand years ago and refers to flammable liquid hydrocarbon. The process of highlighting texts also inspired the naming of the project. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Project Naptha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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