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> It looks like there's not much progress done since in the field LLMs help here. From my own experiments chatGPT is pretty good "smart, context-aware" OCR ag
by jonahx 2y ago
> It looks like there's not much progress done since in the field
LLMs help here. From my own experiments chatGPT is pretty good "smart, context-aware" OCR agent.
- Kubuxu 2y agoUsing image embedding and evaluating 100s billion parameter LLM for OCR is like hunting rabbits using Yamato’s 18in naval gun.
- manquer 2y agoWell using a human is bring an interstellar rail gun to hunt rabbit so i guess it still better ?
- jonahx 2y agoNot really. Proper OCR in the broadest sense (extracting text from arbitrary pdfs that intermingle tables, images, etc, or from hand written artistic posters) requires a full understanding of semantic intent. You are perhaps imagining more constrained scenarios of straight lines of consistent text on a page with well-known artifacts of "noise" (smudges, print imperfections, and so on).