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Does anyone know how Apple Vision performs on Japanese vertical, right-to-left text extraction? This is my biggest need around some machine translation stuff, b
by bugglebeetle 3y ago
Does anyone know how Apple Vision performs on Japanese vertical, right-to-left text extraction? This is my biggest need around some machine translation stuff, but I’ve found Google OCR is the only thing that can do this reliably well, but also that it’s too expensive to run for hobby projects.
- duskwuff 3y agoSurprisingly, it works! Vertical text is recognized as if it were normal text rotated 90° clockwise.
- qingcharles 3y agoHow well does GPT Vision read it? I always used GPT-V for reading thorny documents (e.g. medieval French handwritten letters) and it would do a spectacular job, but they hobbled it at some point to tone down its enthusiasm for translation, so a lot of the time you have to tell it that it's important to your dead grandma's career or other tricks to get the output.
- bugglebeetle 3y agoI haven’t tried via the API because it’s too expensive for what I’m doing (hundreds of pages of high-res scans of old Japanese books), but I should test out a few pages in ChatGPT.
- qingcharles 3y agoYeah, please test some in GPT Pro and let me know what answer you get. I have to do some mixed content later this year (Japanese magazines that fluidly meld English, LTR Japanese, and pop-outs in RTL vertical Jap). I've not tried them in Adobe Acrobat yet though, which I usually use for text recognition.