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0 pointslayer81y ago0 comments

> This is perfect!

Just a nit, but I wouldn’t call it perfect when using U+25CB ○ WHITE CIRCLE instead of what should be U+00BA º MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR, or alternatively a superscript “o”. These are https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverbe_ordinal#Premiers_adver....

There’s also extra spaces after the “1607” and around the hyphen in “Diane-Henriette”.

Lastly, U+2019 instead of U+0027 would be more appropriate for the apostrophe, all the more since in the image it looks like the former and not like the latter.

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MatthiasPortzel1y ago

Slightly unrelated, but I once used Apple’s built-in OCR feature LiveText to copy a short string out of an image. It appeared to work, but I later realized it had copied “M” as U+041C (Cyrillic Capital Letter Em), causing a regex to fail to match. OCR giving identical characters is only good enough until it’s not.

jorvi1y ago

> Just a nit, but I wouldn’t call it perfect when using U+25CB ○ WHITE CIRCLE instead of what should be U+00BA º MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR, or alternatively a superscript “o”

Or degree symbol. Although it should be able to figure out which to use according to the context.

TeMPOraL1y ago

This is "reasoning model" stuff even for humans :).

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raffraffraff1y ago

It feels like, after the OCR step there should be language and subject matter detection, with a final sweep with a spelling / grammar checker that has the right "dictionary" selected. (That, right there, is my naivety on the subject, but I would have thought that the type of problem you're describing isn't OCR but classical spelling and grammar checking?)

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