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Tesseract OCR was created by digital (DEC) in 19_8_5 (yes, 40 not four YEARs ago). Now go back and read the article and ROFL with me.

by vaxman 1y ago

Onavo 1y ago
The original tesseract OCR has no neural nets. It bare little resemblance to the modern version.
- vaxman 1y ago
  It's still 40. Why not use Ollama-OCR?
  - krapht 1y ago
    Because I benchmarked both on my dataset and found that Tesseract was better for my use-case?
  - rafram 1y ago
    I’ve tested a bunch of vision models on particularly difficult documents (handwritten in a German script that’s no longer used), and I have yet to be impressed. They’re good at BSing to the point that you almost think they nailed it, until you realize that it’s mostly/all made-up text that doesn’t appear in the document.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
    > It's still 40. Is it, though? If the important parts of the code are new, does it matter that other parts are older or derived from older code? (Of course, I think this whole line of thought is pointless; what matters is not age, but how well it works, and tesseract generally does seem to work.)
    - vaxman 1y ago
      Yeah it is, it does (especially with OOP) and "ABBYY" kicked Tesseract's arse a long time ago anyway. Maybe try OpenAI GPT-4o or Google's Document AI https://cloud.google.com/document-ai https://cloud.google.com/document-ai
ivanjermakov 1y ago
What is this argument? Much software we use today was created in the 80s.
- vaxman 1y ago
  Not the actual implementations heh ...I heard even Linus has dropped support for the 486. Even the infra is finally giving way...did you see the NVLINK SPINE announcement a few days ago? It's going to be deployed in Stargate UAE that was announced Thursday.
rafram 1y ago
Unix was created in _1971_ and here we are still running processes and shells like it’s the 70s. Why not just have an LLM dream up the output?
- vaxman 1y ago
  No son, Linux is not a version of Unix anymore than MINIX is. NeXTStep was real UNIX, but macOS is not. BTW, I was taught to program in C by one of the original core Unix team members and I worked for DEC long before I could have discussed TesseractOCR with people who didn't. Keep those ignorant downvotes commin'

Tesseract OCR was created by digital (DEC) in 19_8_5 (yes, 40 not four YEARs ago). Now go back and read the article and ROFL with me.

by vaxman 1y ago

Tesseract OCR was created by digital (DEC) in 19_8_5 (yes, 40 not four YEARs ago). Now go back and read the article and ROFL with me.

Onavo 1y ago

The original tesseract OCR has no neural nets. It bare little resemblance to the modern version.

vaxman 1y ago
It's still 40. Why not use Ollama-OCR?
- krapht 1y ago
  Because I benchmarked both on my dataset and found that Tesseract was better for my use-case?
- rafram 1y ago
  I’ve tested a bunch of vision models on particularly difficult documents (handwritten in a German script that’s no longer used), and I have yet to be impressed. They’re good at BSing to the point that you almost think they nailed it, until you realize that it’s mostly/all made-up text that doesn’t appear in the document.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
  > It's still 40. Is it, though? If the important parts of the code are new, does it matter that other parts are older or derived from older code? (Of course, I think this whole line of thought is pointless; what matters is not age, but how well it works, and tesseract generally does seem to work.)
  - vaxman 1y ago
    Yeah it is, it does (especially with OOP) and "ABBYY" kicked Tesseract's arse a long time ago anyway. Maybe try OpenAI GPT-4o or Google's Document AI https://cloud.google.com/document-ai https://cloud.google.com/document-ai

ivanjermakov 1y ago

What is this argument? Much software we use today was created in the 80s.

vaxman 1y ago
Not the actual implementations heh ...I heard even Linus has dropped support for the 486. Even the infra is finally giving way...did you see the NVLINK SPINE announcement a few days ago? It's going to be deployed in Stargate UAE that was announced Thursday.

rafram 1y ago

Unix was created in _1971_ and here we are still running processes and shells like it’s the 70s. Why not just have an LLM dream up the output?

vaxman 1y ago
No son, Linux is not a version of Unix anymore than MINIX is. NeXTStep was real UNIX, but macOS is not. BTW, I was taught to program in C by one of the original core Unix team members and I worked for DEC long before I could have discussed TesseractOCR with people who didn't. Keep those ignorant downvotes commin'