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Re:Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the ... by sanj on Saturday March 13, 2021 @04:40PM (#26450246)
Unless they’re not: https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
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Re:Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the ... by reanimus on Saturday March 13, 2021 @10:32PM (#26452557)
Did you read that article? That wasn't an OCR issue it was an image compression issue.
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Re:Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the ... by sanj on Saturday March 13, 2021 @10:52PM (#26452656)
I did, and I’m aware it wasn’t OCR that was the underlying problem.

But the issue manifests as characters being incorrectly identified because of an algo t

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Re:Adobe Photoshop's 'super resolution' made my jaw hit the ... by viraptor on Sunday March 14, 2021 @06:05AM (#26454036)
Same thing in a way. OCR does lossy compression from pixels to text. Both could do similar mistake for pretty similar reasons.
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