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I want to rejoice that OCR is now a "solved" problem, but I feel like hallucinations are just as problematic as the kind of stuff I have to put up with tessera
by spudlyo 2y ago
I want to rejoice that OCR is now a "solved" problem, but I feel like hallucinations are just as problematic as the kind of stuff I have to put up with tesseract -- both require careful manual proofreading for an acceptable degree of confidence. I guess I'll have to try it and see for myself just how much better these solutions are for my public domain archive.org Latin language reader & textbook projects.
- eMPee584 2y agopossibly doing both & diffing the output to spot contested bits?
- spudlyo 2y agothat’s my current idea, use two different ocr models and diff the results to spot check for errors. at these prices why not?
- qingcharles 2y agoIt depends on your use-case. For mine, I'm mining millions of scanned PDF pages to get approximate short summaries of long documents. The occasional hallucination won't damage the project. I realize I'm an outlier, and I would obviously prefer a solution that was as accurate as possible.