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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by emodendroket on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @05:00PM (#22479124)
No, I don't think it's pedantic and impractical. There are many use cases where the possibility of adversarial input makes heuristics a non-starter.
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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by pqdfdsaff on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @06:10PM (#22479625)
Please tell me the practical concerns regarding adversarial inputs against a phone app that tries to tag pictures of birds in national parks.
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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by emodendroket on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:12AM (#22494129)
Well of course if you define it narrowly that's true, but computer vision has many more safety-critical applications, most obviously self-driving.
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