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No multi-user accounts possible (work/private separation) or something like Samsung Knox. This is stopping me from switching.

You know very well that it is impossible to get accurate numbers at this point. Even the graveyards in Wuhan are currently locked and guarded. So what kind of source do you expect …

"where even objectively true information"... do you have an example of this? What kind of recent news do you have in mind? So far, all the Covid19 stats out of China proofed to be …

What do people think about this? Is it ok to use Corona for promoting your business? "Corona-Discount" and all that? Asking for a friend.

I upvoted this just because of the nature.com link - but after I actually read it, I am disapointed. Summary: Q: Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people? A: We don…

Source added, excerpt here: Professor Christian Drosten from the Charite clinic in Berlin, Germany, estimates the virus could infect up to 70 percent of the world or 5.2 billion pe…

Source added in my post above. The number comes from this guy: https://www.charite.de/en/service/en_person_detail/person/ad...

Scientific agreement seems to be that ~60-70% of the population will get infected. It is just not sure if within months or (hopefully!) years. And no drugs within at least one year…

OCR.space charges only $10 for 100,000 conversions. The quality is good, but not as good as Abbyy.

On the other hand... OCR is meanwhile so good that it can be used for many PDF text extraction projects. So often there is no longer the need to bother with PDF internals, just scr…

The amount of up- and downvoting on anything China related feels insane. I wish someone at Hackernews will write a blog post about this some day (accounts, IP addresses, and whatev…

Hongkong, as part of China, is unfortunately governed more and more by fear. Plus the lady in charge is refusing to close the border to China. Compare this to Taiwan, where things …

Is this dedicated receipt OCR significantly better then the out-of-the box OCR you get from Google Cloud Vision, Abbyy or OCR.space? As standard OCR gets better and better, the roo…

Tesseract needs text on a white background to work well out of the box. For "text on images" try for example https://ocr.space/ocrapi

Tesseract is optimized for images with white backgrounds. ID cards or movie screenshots do not work well.

> As far as I know, it powers all OCR at Google (e.g. in Keep, Docs, etc.). Afaik Google no longer uses Tesseract for any of its products. Googles Clould OCR is much better than Te…

Related Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/project-naptha/mol... Another extension (not using Tesseract.JS): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copy…