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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by gmiller123456 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @01:27PM (#22486322)
"Doing better than me", or any other human, wasn't the problem proposed. Anything other than 100% accuracy means the problem isn't solved as there will always be room for a better solution.
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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by pqdfdsaff on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @02:28PM (#22487062)
The problem posed was "can my app tag photos with birds". The answer is now yes for all practical purposes.

You italicized the word 'solved' to emphasize that under technical scrutiny it is not true in response to a claim about being pedantic.

100% accuracy on identifying birds is, epistemologically, impossible.

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