Wow, who knew that plain old text recognition could be such an ✨adventure✨? Apparently, adding a sprinkle of "accuracy" to your #OCR code is groundbreaking 🤯. But hey, the world couldn't possibly survive without yet another way to read printed text, right? 📚🔍
https://pieces.app/blog/how-we-made-our-optical-character-recognition-ocr-code-more-accurate #textrecognition #adventure #technology #innovation #accuracy #printedtext #HackerNews #ngated

Got me a #kindle #scribe for Christmas. Love to write with a real pen on something that resembles real paper, but with results I can digitally process, search etc.

Problem: amazon exports only a PDF with the handwriting and text without any structure. Disappointing.

LLMs for the rescue! So far had good success and some unexpected fails getting more out of the PDF than what amazon does. Here's my posts on medium about it.

https://medium.com/@karlheinz.agsteiner/getting-the-most-out-of-your-kindle-scribe-with-ai-077f3b6b552d

#llm #textrecognition #chatgpt #mistral #claude

It's #Wednesday, and I'm continuing my work on transcribing the #EthicaComplementoria from 1674 using #Transkribus. My "job" ran overnight, and the training results were impressive! So, I did a final check on the layout recognition of the remaining pages and ran a #TextRecognition job on the entire Ethica print. The book contains both the Ethica Complementoria and the Tranchierbuch. The latter has many illustrations and tables, so I've decided to run it separately.

RT @ghacks@twitter.com

Mozilla plans to add Text Recognition support to Firefox. Currently in testing in Firefox Nightly for Mac. #firefox #textrecognition #mozilla

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/19/mozilla-plans-to-add-text-recognition-support-to-firefox/