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ideasphere • today at 3:47 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

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


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michaelt • today at 8:08 AM

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...

bozdemir • today at 4:06 AM

Hahahhahah good catch.