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I think using vision models for browsing is the wrong approach. It is the same as using OCR for scanning PDFs. The underlying text is already in digital form. S
by jsemrau 2y ago
I think using vision models for browsing is the wrong approach. It is the same as using OCR for scanning PDFs. The underlying text is already in digital form. So it would make more sense to establish a standard similar to meta-tags that enable the agentic web.
- webmaven 2y agoIf you're working from the markup rather than the appearance of the page, you're probably increasing the incentives for metacrap, "invisible text spam" and similar tactics.
- taneq 2y agoPDFs are more akin to SVG than to a Word document, and the text is often very far from “available”. OCR can be the only way to reconstruct the document as it appears on screen.
- jejeyyy77 2y agono, websites/pdfs were designed and laid out visually by humans for humans. if you are just parsing the text you’ve lost a ton of information encoded in the layout/formatting. that doesn’t even yet consider actual visual assets like graphs/images, etc