Interesting. I guess our content-based marketing pages need to move to canvas-based rendering. That's probably bum too. Straight to serving up jpgs.

> Straight to serving up jpgs.

Back in my Amiga-days we had PowerSnap[1] which did the bargain basement version of OCR: Check the font settings of the window you wanted to cut and paste from, and try to match the font to the bitmap, to let you copy and paste from apps that didn't support it, or from UI element you normally couldn't.

These days, just throwing the image at an AI model would be far more resilient...

I think we've gotten to the point where it would be hard to compose an image that humans can read but an AI model can't, and easy to compose an image an AI can read but humans can't, so I suspect the only option for your marketing department will be to try to prompt inject the AI into buying your product.

(Oh, look, I have written nearly this same comment once before, 11 years ago, on HN[2] - I was wrong about how it worked, and Orgre was right, and my follow up reply appears to be closer to what it actually does)

[1] https://aminet.net/package/util/cdity/PowerSnap22a

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7631161

thankfully most web browsing will be done by LLMs soon and that won't stop them, good riddance to the mess of a web that google has created