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Re: Mistral OCR

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Post by abrichr »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #16

I was just watching a science-related video containing math equations. I wondered how soon will I be able to ask the video player "What am I looking at here, describe the equations" and it will OCR the frames, analyze them and explain them to me. It's only a matter of time before "browsing" means navigating HTTP sites via LLM prompts. although, I think it is critical that LLM input should NOT be restricted to verbal…

> I wondered how soon will I be able to ask the video player "What am I looking at here, describe the equations" and it will OCR the frames, analyze them and explain them to me.

Seems like https://aiscreenshot.app might fit the bill.

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Post by busymom0 »

andoando wrote: post #18

Bit unrelated but is there anything that can help with really low resolution text? My neighbor got hit and run the other day for example, and I've been trying every tool I can to make out some of the letters/numbers on the plate https://ibb.co/mr8QSYnj

There are photo enhancers online. But your picture is way too pixelated to get any useful info from it.

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Post by opwieurposiu »

Related, does anyone know of an app that can read gauges from an image and log the number to influx? I have a solar power meter in my crawlspace, it is inconvenient to go down there. I want to point an old phone at it and log it so I can check it easily. The gauge is digital and looks like this:

https://www.pvh2o.com/solarShed/firstPower.jpg

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Post by jcuenod »

TriangleEdge wrote: post #19

One of my hobby projects while in University was to do OCR on book scans. Doing character recognition was solved, but finding the relationship between characters was very difficult. I tried "primitive" neural nets, but edge cases would often break what I built. Super cool to me to see such an order of magnitude in improvement here. Does it do hand written notes and annotations? What about meta information like highli…

* Character recognition on monolingual text in a narrow domain is solved

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Post by flutas »

andoando wrote: post #18

Bit unrelated but is there anything that can help with really low resolution text? My neighbor got hit and run the other day for example, and I've been trying every tool I can to make out some of the letters/numbers on the plate https://ibb.co/mr8QSYnj

Looks like a paper temp tag. Other than that, I'm not sure much can be had from it.

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Post by tjoff »

busymom0 wrote: post #22
andoando wrote: post #18

Bit unrelated but is there anything that can help with really low resolution text? My neighbor got hit and run the other day for example, and I've been trying every tool I can to make out some of the letters/numbers on the plate https://ibb.co/mr8QSYnj

There are photo enhancers online. But your picture is way too pixelated to get any useful info from it.

If you know the font in advance (which you often do in these cases) you can do insane reconstructions. Also keep in mind that it doesn't have to be a perfect match, with the help of the color and other facts (such as likely location) about the car you can narrow it down significantly.

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Post by zinglersen »

andoando wrote: post #18

Bit unrelated but is there anything that can help with really low resolution text? My neighbor got hit and run the other day for example, and I've been trying every tool I can to make out some of the letters/numbers on the plate https://ibb.co/mr8QSYnj

Finding the right subreddit and asking there is probably a better approach if you want to maximize the chances of getting the plate 'decrypted'.
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