Hello.

I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

User Agents Hitting My Site

Paul Kinlan

Curious about who's visiting my site, I built a user-agent tracker using Vercel middleware and KV storage. It logs every request and displays a live table of user agents and hit counts, refreshing every minute. Check out the code on GitHub!

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Detecting text in an image on the web in real-time

Paul Kinlan

I'm excited to share the latest addition to the Shape Detection API: the Text Detection API! This API allows you to detect text within images in real-time, right in the browser. It's still experimental and currently works on Chrome Canary for Android, but it opens up amazing possibilities. Imagine real-time translation, assistive technologies for parsing image content, or even grabbing URLs from slides at conferences. I've built a demo where the API detects text, draws a box around it, and reads it aloud when clicked. Check out the code and demo to experiment yourself. I can't wait to see what you build with this!

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