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Not trynna to be funny. The author's post is anti-human, thus useless and harmful (medically). I can't read this bad font, sizing, spacing, etc. The main offender is the color choice, and fonts that are just god aweful to read.
I'm a bit frustrated by what seems to be a widespread strong negative reaction to anti-AI fonts. The accessibility problem is real, but I feel like that's a reason to push the investigation deeper for solutions to that problem, not a reason to abandon the effort entirely. The largest intellectual property infringement in the history of the universe is actively unfolding, and it's resulting in an existentially threate…
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> Accessibility is not accessible if you need to go through extra steps to get it. That seems a bit entitled to me, especially in the story you shared. They had access to the school just like everyone else. Why does it have to be in the exact same spot? Surely they could be dropped off by the loading dock as easily as others could be dropped off out front, and maybe even moreso. Should the wheelchair accessible stall…
> They had access to the school just like everyone else They literally did not. They had access to the school from a different entrance than everybody else. Specifically, one intended for cargo before people.
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It already was a major issue in 2010 - home desktop-grade OCRs could easily beat an average grandma on reading heavily garbled text.
> 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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> They had access to the school just like everyone else They literally did not. They had access to the school from a different entrance than everybody else. Specifically, one intended for cargo before people.
Would it have been different, if they had everyone take the cargo entrance?
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It already was a major issue in 2010 - home desktop-grade OCRs could easily beat an average grandma on reading heavily garbled text.
> 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?
That said, what kind of errors are you getting? I think the main practical difference between Tesseract's LSTM-based OCR and newer VLM-based OCR like PaddleOCR [1] is (hopefully) getting to skip making heuristics for the layout of the document, but errors possibly compounding over multiple tokens - are you getting individual illegible words or having the documents smooshed together because the OCR can't parse the layout?
Is there evidence shieldfont doesn't work?
Their own whitepaper brings up a bigger issue: if it works, it poisons search engines as well.
The irony of championing accessibility using low-contrast simulated VGA text...