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> AI is about right 1% of the time I have an app where people scan their retail/restaurant/cafe receipts and store them. I use Gemini 2.0 for OCR. It is right
by senko 2y ago
> AI is about right 1% of the time
I have an app where people scan their retail/restaurant/cafe receipts and store them. I use Gemini 2.0 for OCR.
It is right more than 99% of the time. I would be making many more errors transcribing the receipts manually.
AIs are a different kind of tools, for a different kind of problems, with a different kind of failure cases.
- jsk2600 2y agoOCRs are quite different from AI/ML, which the parent comment is referring to. In fact, OCR existed way before the current AI wave.
- immibis 2y agoOCRs are AI/ML in the sense it meant to everyone before 2020.
- senko 2y agoIn case it wasn't clear, I'm using "OCR" in my comment above for "reading and interpreting textual documents provided as images", not as a reference to a specific tech such as Tesseract. In the app, I am, in fact, using AI/ML tech and I'm saying it's very accurate for my use case, as a counterpoint to the parent comment which says AI works in 1% cases, maybe. But since you brought it up, this workflow works better than the supposedly "99.999999% right all the time" traditional code (traditional OCR tools). Hope this clears it up.