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Re:Mistral OCR by renewiltord on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:40PM (#43283582)
4o transcribes it perfectly. You can usually root an old Android and write this app in ~2h with LLMs if unfamiliar. The hard part will be maintaining camera lens cleanliness and alignment etc.

The time cost is so low that you should give it a gander. You'll be surprised how fast you can do it. If you just take screenshots every minute it should suffice.

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Re:Mistral OCR by pavl on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:30PM (#43285690)
What software-tools do you usw to Programm the APP?
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Re:Mistral OCR by renewiltord on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:23PM (#43286038)
Since it's at home, you'll have WiFi access, so it's pretty much a rudimentary Kotlin app on Android. You can just grab a photo and ship it to the GPT-4o API, get the response, and then POST it somewhere.
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