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Yeah, one time I got an image of a sum. So I just put in the LaTeX equivalent, something like \Sigma_{n=1}^{100}, and it accepted it.
by w1ntermute 15y ago
Yeah, one time I got an image of a sum. So I just put in the LaTeX equivalent, something like \Sigma_{n=1}^{100}, and it accepted it.
- m3koval 15y agoSince OCR was only able to parse one of the words, they have no way of checking the other (besides taking votes from a ton of submissions). Because the summation was not the word that was checked, you could enter anything. It's an interesting problem. If they make it too clear that they don't know the right answer, quality of submissions will plummet. If they keep the current form, then usability suffers.
- simcop2387 15y agoThere's actually a game of this on 4chan.org/b/ there's a pattern to knowing which word is known and which isn't because the known word is put through a recognizable filter and the unknown one isn't (most of the time). They then put in a specific racial slur in for the unknown word, hoping that just once it'll slip through enough that it makes it into the final OCR'd text.
- lukeschlather 15y agoIf you succeed at the control (the one it already thinks it knows) it takes your other answer as input for future viewers.
- bdonlan 15y agoOnly if multiple people give the same response, though.