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Re:Replace OCR with Vision Language Models by refulgentis on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:22PM (#43190978)
That's not OCR.

It is an absolute miracle.

It is transmutating a picture into JSON.

I never thought this would be possible in my lifetime.

But that is different from what your interlocutor is discussing.

Re:Replace OCR with Vision Language Models by 1024core on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:34PM (#43191050)
> I never thought this would be possible in my lifetime.

I used to work in Computer Vision and Image Processing. These days I utter this sentence on an almost daily basis. :-D