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Not really. Everything out there is ancient and uses techniques from the 80s/90s. It's pretty sad considering that OCR is basically a solved problem. We have n
by j-pb 11y ago
Not really. Everything out there is ancient and uses techniques from the 80s/90s.
It's pretty sad considering that OCR is basically a solved problem. We have neural nets that are capable of extracting entities in images and bigdata systems that can play jeopardy. But no one has used that tech for OCR and put it out there.
- IshKebab 11y agoIt's because the kind of massive training sets that are required for accurate speach/text recognition are difficult and time-consuming to amass. It's just too difficult for hobbiests at the moment. It's kind of the same reason there is no good open source solid modelling software (like Solidworks or NX). The problem has been "solved" for years, but actually doing it is too mammoth a task for open-source software.
- recmo 11y ago[OT] What about FreeCAD? It looks like good open source solid modelling software: http://freecadweb.org/ http://freecadweb.org/
- kefka 11y agoFreeCAD is starting to get good, but the problem is it lacks core functionality that Solid works already has built in. Admittedly, the underlying python calls are exposed, and you can use them... if you know how to make the appropriate calls. When they get good GUI hooked up to the calls, it will be in parity with the pay solutions.
- j-pb 11y agoCreating training data is a relatively simple task though (even though massive in scale), which can be done by untrained people in a crowd sourced fashion. Creating a modeling tool is both difficult, requiring experts _and_ time consuming.