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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by abyssin on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:04AM (#48321197)
Why PNG? Isn’t an image format more expensive to process?
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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by ok123456 on Friday May 29, 2026 @11:19AM (#48324251)
Not really. The model is good/fast at OCR, and preprocessing it actually makes it worse because academic paper formatting is very complicated. Sizes, positions, and equations are important.
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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by culi on Friday May 29, 2026 @02:57PM (#48327714)
what a strange world we live in where robots are WORSE at handling formatted stuff. I wonder what this means for the importance of semantic HTML to screenreaders
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