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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by blackoil on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:43PM (#37862180)
>OCR is seamless

Wasn't that solved about a decade ago. Does anyone suck at that?

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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by filterfiber on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:47PM (#37862973)
> Does anyone suck at that?

Does android even have native OCR? Last I checked everything required an OCR app of varying quality (including windows/linux).

On ios/macos you can literally just click on a picture and select the text in it as if it wasn't a picture. I know for sure on iOS you don't even open an app to do it, just any picture you can select it.

Last I checked the Opensource OCR tools were decent but behind the closed source stuff as well.

Random google result of OCR on android (could be outdated) - https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/10te5et/why_oc...

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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by londons_explore on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:20PM (#37863307)
Android has had built in OCR for a few releases. You can copy and paste text from any image/app you can display on the screen.

To use, go to the app switcher and just start selecting text.

It's funny trying to select text in a video while the video is playing...

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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by acka on Friday October 13, 2023 @04:07AM (#37868074)
> Android has had built in OCR for a few releases. You can copy and paste text from any image/app you can display on the screen.

AFAIK this is a feature only available on Google Pixel devices. so not on 'Android' in general.

For one, my Oppo device running Android 12 doesn't have it.

Yes, Android fragmentation sucks.

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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by ewoodrich on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:33PM (#37863439)
Not sure about other Android OEMs but OCR has been built in to Samsung Gallery (equivalent to Photos app on iPhones) for a while. Works the same way - long press on text in an image to select it as text. Haven't had any issues with it.
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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by pptr on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:34PM (#37863460)
I use Google Lens for OCR in photos and the swipe-up+"select" feature for OCR in arbitrary apps/websites.

That at least works for Pixel phones. Not sure about Samsung and others.

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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by smoldesu on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:51PM (#37863014)
> Does android even have native OCR?

Tesseract? https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

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