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Re:The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (19... by aidenn0 on Monday February 12, 2024 @11:02AM (#39346394)
How long until I can get a highly accurate OCR of this PDF with open source tools?

Everyone seems to point me at tesseract, but it does things like turn:

  CHAPTER III
into something like :

  CHAPTER 1|l
Granted with sans-serif fonts, the characters themselves are ambiguous, but I have no idea how the language model lets that through.
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Re:The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (19... by geor9e on Monday February 12, 2024 @01:10PM (#39348225)
Your assessment of open source OCR performance is the same as mine - it still sucks. Even proprietary large models like Google Gemini suck at it.

If it helps at all, someone manually did it https://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/the-empire-strikes-back-...

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