93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)

Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by ideasphere on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:47PM (#50462839)

I’m more interested in how the OCR missed that ‘Stitch & Shutter’ watermark in the third one.

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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by bozdemir on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:06PM (#50462962)

Hahahhahah good catch.

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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by michaelt on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:08AM (#50464367)

It looks like the author used Tesseract, a traditional OCR image with lineage going back to HP flatbed scanners in the 1980s [1]

Obviously, it's been improved a lot since then - but traditional OCR is mostly about black text on white backgrounds. Or at least, the text being high-contrast relative to the rest of the document.

Light gold text on a white background, while there are black splatters? That's the sort of thing it would struggle with for sure.

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

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