Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
by Ygg2 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @08:25AM
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> Google can
1) Do you have trillion or so dollars at your beck and call? If not, you're not Google.
> Finding an algorithm that approximates how a human...
2) ...is generally nigh impossible even for someone with Google's resources (e.g. Waymo, although when it comes to reading, it's somewhat usable). Also, look at 1)
Unless by approximate you mean toddler level. In that case:
1) Do you have trillion or so dollars at your beck and call? If not, you're not Google.
> Finding an algorithm that approximates how a human...
2) ...is generally nigh impossible even for someone with Google's resources (e.g. Waymo, although when it comes to reading, it's somewhat usable). Also, look at 1)
Unless by approximate you mean toddler level. In that case:
3) The approximation is probably useless