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Xirdustoday at 4:55 PM1 replyview on HN

It already was a major issue in 2010 - home desktop-grade OCRs could easily beat an average grandma on reading heavily garbled text.


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no-name-heretoday at 5:38 PM

> in 2010 - home desktop-grade OCRs could easily beat an average grandma

I’ve heard Tesseract OCR recommended, but even in 2026, no matter how I scan receipts or documents, the OCR output seems far worse than human reading?

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