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23. October 2011, 17:16:13

victorxstc2

Posts: 429

Babylon dictionary compatibility

Long time ago, Babylon worked perfectly on most browsers including Opera. Now it doesn't (at least its other-than-final versions don't). Being comfortable with Opera but not quite with English language, I prefer a browser which allows Babylon to decode its text.

Babylon has a good in-built OCR which can extract text from even poor images, but unfortunately not from Opera (I don't know why and how such a powerful engine is blocked on a simple text rendered from an HTML). I agree this is relevant to the Babylon developers in the first place, but don't you think resolving such a compatibility issue would ease converting more non-English users from other browsers, as well as soothing those like me?

Any efforts in this regard is much appreciated.
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11. March 2012, 23:09:22

victorxstc2

Posts: 429

Any news? May be Opera and Babylon could contact one another to solve this issue. I really can't imagine how simple texts can't be OCRed by Babylon, while it can extract text from low-quality JPEGs, successfully.

11. March 2012, 23:13:00

victorxstc2

Posts: 429

By the way, Babylon is an executable program which runs in the system independently and can (tried to) extract words from anything you ctrl+right click on. In previous versions of Opera and Babylon, it worked fine. But it doesn't work at all in the last 3 or 4 years.

12. March 2012, 06:53:08

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Now also on Vivaldi

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Originally posted by victorxstc2:

By the way, Babylon is an executable program which runs in the system independently and can (tried to) extract words from anything you ctrl+right click on. In previous versions of Opera and Babylon, it worked fine. But it doesn't work at all in the last 3 or 4 years.

maybe you should file a bug report in both their and operas bugtracker then ...
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