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Re:Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:02AM (#38485081)
https://www.handwritingocr.com is aimed specifically at handwriting, and will do that better than Textract and co, but works well for printed text too.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year? on Monday January 02, 2023 @08:09PM (#34226187)
Systematically archiving, transcribing, making searchable the Russian state TV propaganda that’s in a large part responsible for creating and sustaining the war in Ukraine. Tools like Whisper now make it possible to do this on a massive scale. Hoping this will be useful for investigators when the war is over.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person non-SaaS online businesses? on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @06:59PM (#25450476)
How does it make money? Do you charge the user a fee, or get an affiliate commission?