Could you expose your iPhone cluster as an OCR API? Seems like it would be competitive with the GCP API.
Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
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#42This is great, I particularly like the part about using compute from old unwanted iPhones. Quite an inventive way to reuse/recycle otherwise obsolete hardware!
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#43Could you expose your iPhone cluster as an OCR API? Seems like it would be competitive with the GCP API.
I wonder if there might be something in the Apple TOS prohibiting this.
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#44If you don't need advanced search features, you can use Sonic (https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic). It's blazing fast and you can save lot of money on servers.
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#45I was hoping this would help me find the Database Iceberg meme that shows different levels of database insanity. It didn’t. Anyone have a link?
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Not the author) Maybe they leveraged https://knowyourmeme.com/ ? But that can't possibly have all the random memes, could it?
Author here: KnowYourMeme is one of many sites that memes are continually ingested from (any site that has memes I try to ingest regularly) :)
Nice IPhone cluster.
Have you tried something based on deep-learning that uses Transformers : https://github.com/roatienza/deep-text-recognition-benchmark (available weights are for tasks that seem similar to OCR so there is a good chance you can use it out of the box). With a good gpu it should process hundreds to thousands image per seconds, so you likely can build your index in less than a day. (Maybe you can even port it to your iphone stack :) )
https://github.com/microsoft/GenerativeImage2Text (You'll probably have to train on your custom dataset that you have constituted)
There are tons of other freely available solutions that you can get with a search for things with keywords like "image to text ocr" "transformers" "visual transformers"...
Re: Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
#47I was hoping this would help me find the Database Iceberg meme that shows different levels of database insanity. It didn’t. Anyone have a link?
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#49I'm curious how well the iPhone OCR actually works. How do you deal with errors? Is the error rate low enough that you can accept the output from the iPhone OCR as is or do you also run it through a cleaning process (e.g. spell check)?
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#50Now this is the sort of disgusting pile of jank I love to see.