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Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online–If You Know Where

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Re: Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online–If You Know Where

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>chaining together a dozen dilapidated second-generation iPhone SEs and harnessing Apple's Live Text optical character-recognition feature to find possible inventory tags

This is the second time I've read about an iPhone OCR rack https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip...

Is this still state of the art in terms of local OCR?

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>chaining together a dozen dilapidated second-generation iPhone SEs and harnessing Apple's Live Text optical character-recognition feature to find possible inventory tags This is the second time I've read about an iPhone OCR rack https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip... Is this still state of the art in terms of local OCR?

I think Tesseract is the smarter/faster/less obnoxious choice if you're not trying to parse weird meme text like the blog is doing. There's almost certainly a better paid option available in our enlightened AI age, but I don't even think you'd need AI for this use-case.

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>chaining together a dozen dilapidated second-generation iPhone SEs and harnessing Apple's Live Text optical character-recognition feature to find possible inventory tags This is the second time I've read about an iPhone OCR rack https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip... Is this still state of the art in terms of local OCR?

It's just because I did this talk and made FindThatMeme :) so not a popular method, just what I used to do large scale OCR.

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>chaining together a dozen dilapidated second-generation iPhone SEs and harnessing Apple's Live Text optical character-recognition feature to find possible inventory tags This is the second time I've read about an iPhone OCR rack https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip... Is this still state of the art in terms of local OCR?

I think Tesseract is the smarter/faster/less obnoxious choice if you're not trying to parse weird meme text like the blog is doing. There's almost certainly a better paid option available in our enlightened AI age, but I don't even think you'd need AI for this use-case.

I have seen some models mix LLM with ocr to improve both.

Considering what apps like Notes can do low key on iOS… I wouldn’t be surprised if there would exist more capability.

Iirc, Apple was holding back improvements to Siri and other techs.

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Looks like the software was looking for labels like this: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

Yep, that's an example of what the automated scanning looks for. You can see a very similar example in the slides: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2032/DEF%20CON%2032%20pre...

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>chaining together a dozen dilapidated second-generation iPhone SEs and harnessing Apple's Live Text optical character-recognition feature to find possible inventory tags This is the second time I've read about an iPhone OCR rack https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip... Is this still state of the art in terms of local OCR?

It's just because I did this talk and made FindThatMeme :) so not a popular method, just what I used to do large scale OCR.

Oh I completely missed that you're actually the same guy!
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