I started a paper website business

I've done some OCR side projects during hackathon weeks over the years (with google tesseract). This is a neat idea, I can only imagine the difficulty with which transcribing the variety of terrible handwriting will cause frustration and an eventual flood of refunds.

Re: I started a paper website business

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Post by rambambram » Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 3:29 PM UTC

Big smile on my face, fun read and nice video.

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Post by OliC » Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 3:30 PM UTC

What a great idea. We need more of this sort of thing.

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Post by dash2 » Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 3:31 PM UTC

Three above this story on the front page is an article called "The Web Is Fucked", complaining about how there's no character on the web any more, and lamenting the 90s, Geocities etc. etc. I'd say this story refutes that one.

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Post by deegles » Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 3:34 PM UTC

abadger9 wrote: post #6

I've done some OCR side projects during hackathon weeks over the years (with google tesseract). This is a neat idea, I can only imagine the difficulty with which transcribing the variety of terrible handwriting will cause frustration and an eventual flood of refunds.

He really glosses over how he uses GPT-3 to correct the text...