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Some prior discussion prompted by "Why LLMs Suck at OCR": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966958

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I've tested Gemini 2.0 Flash on a bunch of the JFK Files PDFs and it's excellent.

Even with extremely blurry typewriter scans that are difficult for me to decipher.

It's incredible.

I'm sure there's cases where it will fail but just OCRing 90% of the files would be a big win.

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0 pointsTerr_1y ago0 comments

Some prior discussion prompted by "Why LLMs Suck at OCR": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966958

I've tested Gemini 2.0 Flash on a bunch of the JFK Files PDFs and it's excellent.

Even with extremely blurry typewriter scans that are difficult for me to decipher.

It's incredible.

I'm sure there's cases where it will fail but just OCRing 90% of the files would be a big win.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse