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Isn't basic latin OCR a solved problem? I wouldn't expect to have to pay a human to be able to provide it.
by yreg 5y ago
Isn't basic latin OCR a solved problem? I wouldn't expect to have to pay a human to be able to provide it.
- rexreed 5y agoYou'd be surprised. What if I told you Expensify uses humans to do OCR on paper receipts? You'd think computer-generated English fonts on white paper with mostly numbers would be easy for OCR. Think again. What good is a 98-99% accuracy rate when the OCR mistakes $80 for $08. It's humans in the loop. Much more than you might expect.
- yreg 5y agoIn such setting I would expect OCR to have higher accuracy than humans. Apparently I would be wrong.
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