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Re:Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vis... by amelius on Saturday July 25, 2020 @11:52AM (#23950075)
How long will Google keep supporting this API, though?

And, it's getting old, but why does Google need to know any notes I write down. My desktop computer and phone seem powerful enough to do any OCR with the right software.

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Re:Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vis... by enjoiful on Saturday July 25, 2020 @02:51PM (#23951512)
I am looking for a great OCR software I can run locally instead of using Cloud Vision. Do you have any suggestions?
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Re:Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vis... by busymom0 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:31PM (#23953456)
Are you on Mac or iOS? If so, then I developed apps for them which does OCR 100% locally:

MacOS:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/image-text-ocr-photo-pdf-scan/...

iOS:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/image-text-ocr-photo-scanner/i...

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Re:Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vis... by renewiltord on Saturday July 25, 2020 @05:23PM (#23952542)
Do you have a recommendation for good OCR software? Tesseract had trouble for me reading scanned printed text.
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Re:Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vis... by busymom0 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:32PM (#23953460)
Don't want to duplicate my comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23953456

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Re:Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vis... by renewiltord on Sunday July 26, 2020 @03:06PM (#23959341)
Thank you.
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Re:Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vis... by tjpnz on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:37PM (#23950492)
>And, it's getting old, but why does Google need to know any notes I write down.

So they can target you with more ads.

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Re:Convert paper-based notes to HTML content with Google Vis... by throwaway45349 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @01:02PM (#23950705)
You do realise Google doesn't use this data to target ads, right? Nor do you need an account.
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