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Unfortunately I only noticed the typo after purchasing the domain name and decided to run with it :)



Time to build an elaborate (and false) reasoning to share, and at the end of the story reveal the truth.


This is probably even better -- now it's a unique and memorable word, like "captcha" for instance.


I have an even better retroactive name justification! Naphtha is used as fuel, but it's also used as a solvent in chemical extraction and purification procedures.

I honestly thought that was the reasoning when I saw the name & the tool. You purify text from images with naptha!


Naptha is the name of a character in Thomas Mann's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Mountain


Naphta, actually, but the allusion to Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize winning book is brilliant in any case. Now there's whole pool of literary names that can be attached to future features, product roll-outs, etc.

Project Pepercorn alone is enough to get Business Insider writing about it all the time.




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