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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by mrfusion on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:42PM (#14930914)
Does it have Ocr built in?
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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by Yoric on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:45PM (#14930939)
I wouldn't hold my breath on it. Real-world OCR is hard. According to my tests, even Microsoft, Google or IBM's APIs get it wrong very, very often.
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Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ... by miheermunjal on Saturday August 05, 2017 @04:02PM (#14937597)
not that I've seen, though with some logical combination of object dimensions, env variables (depth of field, etc), and a decent image recognition/ML then you could probably get decent OCR. Note that this is for visual recognition, feel text is decently solved (exhibitA, Google Translate).
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