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Show HN: AnyText AI – Multilingual text generation and editing tool (anytext.pics)
24 points by banbanlu 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
I just started to learn frontend and built a free AI powered web app for editing text in image using AnyText.

I will continue iterating the AnyText.pics to make it easier to use and will learn frontend skills by building the web app.




Thanks for sharing this! It looks very powerful, but I'm having a hard time working out how to use it:

1. When I open the "Instructions" tab, I see dark text on a dark background, which is almost unreadable. (This is in a Chrome-based browser.)

2. The mixture of Chinese and English makes the interface harder to scan. You can have the app detect the browser's language and show just one language. You could also add a language switch at the top of the UI.

To detect the browser's language: on the client-side you can do this by looking at the navigator.language property (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/l... ), and on the server-side you can check the Accept-Language header ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac... )


We're working on a similar feature (that we call Textify) that is more production-ready: https://storia.ai/textify


Interesting project that could be very useful to anyone who needs graphical design for presentations/signs/logos. However, it needs a lot of improvement. In no particular order:

1. "Try AnyText for free" button does nothing.

2. It wasn't clear this was for generating images with text until I clicked the link. I thought it was a ChatGPT wrapper at first.

3. The header paragraph says far too much while meaning far too little. It should be formatted more like this: AnyText AI generates images with (really cool looking well designed text) so you can (usecase, usecase)

4. I discovered the Gradio UI by scrolling down. I was immediately overwhelmed with options and Chinese text.

5. The blog post was clearly generated by ChatGPT and contains no technical info that would be interesting to HN readers.




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