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This is the best answer. Any techie will desperately try to come up with a tech solution to this problem. A few months of development later, you might have so
by mvkel 2y ago
This is the best answer.
Any techie will desperately try to come up with a tech solution to this problem.
A few months of development later, you might have something that yields trustworthy output.
But 16 hours? No tech solution will be done faster than that.
Don't build a factory for a one-off.
- PartiallyTyped 2y agoI mean, I'd totally try Tesseract[1], a few samples, and a python script. Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to validate this. Adobe also has the whole scan thing, and apple can — in some cases — correctly transcribe characters from images. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- motoxpro 2y agoI'd say any of the language models are far better than Tesseract. I did some work in this space and it was an absolute nightmare, event working with pdfs.
- mrazomor 2y agoTesseract out of the box is terrible for anything non standard. I tried using it for the comic books. Unusable. The training for your font is doable, but it's very time intensive (while the tools are pretty good!).
- radiantspace 2y agoHandwritten notes, cmon! Don't waste time on tesseract for that.
- 123yawaworht456 2y agofrom my experience with tesseract ~1 year ago, it was frequently fucking up even with crispy PNG screenshots I really doubt it can handle handwriting
- driscoll42 2y agoFor OCR of handwriting, I did some comparative analysis a year back, and I found that Tesseract was... not good. However TrOCR was okay, certainly the best of the FOSS solutions. But Textract from Amazon was the best one by far far for handwriting, though your mileage will vary
- lozenge 2y agoErr, 16 hours just to read. Then you still need to deal with the inaccuracies of speech to text.
- weaksauce 2y agoso what? it's 10 years of notes. even if you double or triple or quadruple the time editing it for inaccuracies it's still better than an ocr almost certainly.
- bongodongobob 2y agoHave 4 people do it and you're done by lunch.
- Someone 2y agoIf their handwriting is like mine, i think it will take more time that way. The other people will be interrupting them every second to ask “what’s that word?”. Eventually, they’ll learn and speed will go up, but with this amount of work, work will be finished before they make up for the learning curve.
- lallysingh 2y agoDo it over 2 weekends. Or an hour a night instead of TV.
- DonsDiscountGas 2y agoSince OP is doing this deliberately for speech2text they will presumably enunciate very clearly and have a good mic. S2T has very good performance under ideal conditions like that
- IanCal 2y agoModern speech to text is, for me, extremely accurate. You also have the original audio and can rerun things as and when technology improves.
- harlanji 2y ago
- spaceship__sun 2y agoHave you tried gpt4o?
- tkgally 2y agoOr Gemini 1.5 Pro. The latest multimodal models, while still far from perfect, do seem to be getting better at image recognition and OCR.
- Void_ 2y agoI recommend https://whispermemos.com https://whispermemos.com
- DeathArrow 2y ago>Don't build a factory for a one-off. Maybe other people can use the software, so it's not a one-off?
- oslem 2y agoI’d imagine 16 hours is a low estimate if OP wants to retain formatting.
- bckr 2y ago> But 16 hours? No tech solution will be done faster than that. True > Don't build a factory for a one-off. One thing on my wishlist is that I end up with a way to instantly transcribe my notes.
- sky2224 2y ago> One thing on my wishlist is that I end up with a way to instantly transcribe my notes. Many of the implementations are clunky in my opinion, but this exists as a feature in many note taking tablet apps.
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