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...and the result was better than what you could buy from Google cloud vision or ocr.space out of the box?
>Since OCR is basically "hello world" for tensorflow,

This is a strong statement. Do you have any links to code or documentation that implements high-quality OCR with tensorflow?

As far as hosted solutions go, the best are Google Cloud Vision, Azure OCR and OCr.space

You can compare all three here: https://ocr.space/compare-ocr-software

Hollywood - best country marketing ever.
Facebook can just charge 1$ per sign-up and the problem is gone (faking credit cards etc does not scale).

Of course, as others have said, they prefer having more "users".

Or move to Taiwan if you have the chance.
Why not? Most "Eastern European EU citizen" I know support this kind of idea... what is wrong with it? Corruption is bad, and I would not care if a French, German or Bulgarian national uncovers it.