Perspec 1.0 (adriansieber.com)

42 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago

11 comments:

by speerer 3 hours ago

Exciting! I needed this last week, and now here it is. Thanks.

I share the annoyance about phone detection previees over-promising. But I'm pleased this comes with perspective correction and lighting correction together.

by dmwood 2 hours ago

Crashes on launch

macOS: macos-26_arm version installs (with intervention to permit running), but crashes on launch. ------------------------------------- Translated Report (Full Report Below) ------------------------------------- Process: perspec [94673] Path: /Users/USER//Perspec.app/Contents/Resources/perspec Identifier: perspec Version: ??? Code Type: ARM-64 (Native) Role: Unspecified Parent Process: Exited process [94672] Coalition: com.adriansieber.Perspec [86355] Responsible Process: Perspec [94671] User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2026-08-04 12:50:37.5848 -0600 Launch Time: 2026-08-04 12:50:37.5821 -0600 Hardware Model: Mac13,1 OS Version: macOS 26.6 (25G72) Release Type: User

Crash Reporter Key: 9FD40ACB-279F-0F79-41E1-8B4D3B663EA7 Incident Identifier: 207F9047-B786-4C8C-8263-BA9C4DB370EB

Time Awake Since Boot: 320000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Triggered by Thread: 0

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Termination Reason: Namespace DYLD, Code 1, Library missing Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew//libwebp.7.dylib Referenced from: <47F30FA1-4AB9-310F-8988-5CABFEF76F5E> /Users/USER//Perspec.app/Contents/Resources/perspec Reason: tried: '/opt/homebrew//libwebp.7.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/opt/homebrew//libwebp.7.dylib' (no such file), '/opt/homebrew//libwebp.7.dylib' (no such file) (terminated at launch; ignore backtrace)

Dyld Error Message: 1

by adius 2 hours ago

Thanks for the report. I'm looking into it!

by giancarlostoro 2 hours ago

Be fully aware it is AGPL licensed before you try to use any of this code for something "at work" without realizing it. That said, looks neat!

by Gualdrapo 2 hours ago

Last time I used Gimp it had a plugin that let you correct perspective, wonder how they both compare

by esafak an hour ago

The Google Camera app already does this (much). I look into this problem during a receipt scanning project. If you want development ideas look up "metric rectification" and 'manifold dewarping'; e.g. https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2025/papers/Hertle...

by stronglikedan 38 minutes ago

Samsung Galaxy camera as well. Just hit "scan" when it pops up and you get the same results.

by adius 32 minutes ago

The "Initial Motivation" section in the article explains why existing mobile apps aren't good enough.

by OutOfHere 2 hours ago

It is nagware:

> Before an image is saved, a "Buy License" banner is shown for 10 seconds.

by nerdsniper 2 hours ago

That seems pretty reasonable! It's also AGPL licensed and the source code is available on GitHub. 20 minutes with an LLM would likely yield you a nagware-free version if you value your time at less than $21/hour. Otherwise it costs just $7 to pay Adrian for their good work!

by OutOfHere 2 hours ago

Why, when I could use an AI to both detect the corners and write+run a completely free ad-hoc script to fix the perspective.

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