Is it? I've never seen a single OCR that would replace a human just typing it by hand.
What if the goal is something actually useful, such as converting scientific paper PDF back to LaTeX that renders into a pixel-perfect copy? What about converting tables from electronics datasheets into computer-readable form? I wouldn't even expect it in the next decade.
I've had success with vision models & OCR, saved me many hours / days / weeks of typing work.
Last year I finally OCR'd many hundreds of pages of my father's old writings. I found that feeding it to Claude Sonnet 4.x via API gave me results that were perfect. No corrections required. So perfect, that Claude was reading along with the story, and actually pointed out a continuity error in the story where an incorrect character was reciting dialog. Claude asked if it should transcribe exactly as is or if I would like Claude to correct the continuity error.
Claude also correctly OCR'd some handwriting that was in the margins of the documents. Sonnet came very close to transcribing a Word Sleuth puzzle, but that was where I hit the limits of its capability at the time.
Mistral OCR was also good (and actually what I started with), but it wasn't quite as good as Claude. And when it was wrong, Mistral could be frighteningly wrong - one API call must have failed, the model must have been presented with a pure black / null image, and I got back a "transcription" that described neverending darkness. It read like something the Woodsman would have broadcast in Twin Peaks S3E8. That poor model.
Tables from electronics datasheets might be okay, I think I've had success with OCR of technical manuals with tables for 80s synthesizer hardware. But I admit my use cases don't crossover into transcriptions of equations or graphs.
How does it compare against Finereader? Comparisons against transformer-based OCRs don't really tell anything. The last time I checked, neither of them were of "OCR this legal document" quality.
Yeah, I've first seen it over 15 years ago. Usually you use operator of the same priority as you'd like, and also #define xor &xor_i& to get all that detail out of sight.
The last time I remember, the green company did the same HTTP thing literally with their driver downloads from the website, and refused to fix it.
Makes me wonder, how much of that 4 month delay was spent deliberating with the state actor. As if there was Prism, and both companies were legally bound to allow MitM to happen, and thus don't have a bug bounty for it.
It doesn't smell like a state actor to me, just gross negligence. Brushing up on the Reddit comment we wrote, the MITM isn't exploitable by default, since the client will error out at the 301 redirect and leave an obvious black window on the user's desktop. Exploiting a user would require replacing the 301 redirect with a direct download, which requires the same amount of effort whether the default disclosure was broken or not.
Now if they could've started shipping a modified AMD auto update that followed redirects, that would allow them to pwn users of the updated program. But it would do nothing to people who had installed older versions, up to the version the author installed (which left a black window open indicating the downloads never completed)...
I'm not proposing anything. I don't think it's the government's remit to be honest. But government seizing the means of production is literally the definition of communism.
Like detecting constriction or loss of integrity of blood vessels, and doing the corresponding intervention.
The saddest thing here is not that it requires some future nanotechnology, but is achievable at the present scientific level, yet too expensive to develop, and wouldn't see FDA permission in a decade or two anyway.
What if the goal is something actually useful, such as converting scientific paper PDF back to LaTeX that renders into a pixel-perfect copy? What about converting tables from electronics datasheets into computer-readable form? I wouldn't even expect it in the next decade.