How good is good do you say?

We got a pretty good results with CER at 4% and WER at 15%!

This was on a limited dataset used to test and train which most likely means that if you introduced an even larger dataset with greater variations in handwriting style for testing the numbers might be even worse.

Very simplified: A risk of a character wrong every 20th character and a word wrong every 7th word. The SER was around 20%.

There’s an reason why no one has released a good model for western letters yet and why companies pay up to 1€ for capturing data from 10 handwritten pages.

It will come but OCR isn’t as sexy as developing text2image solutions.

You really don’t understand how Blu-ray works, do you?

Regarding Blu-ray as a medium for movies: Sony isn’t able do that kind of damage.

Blu-ray Association would go bananas:

Why are you worried about Sony owning the blu-ray format?

None of that made Tesseract excel in capturing handwritten text…

It wasn’t possible a year ago when pos6ted around with tesseract. Things might have changed during the last couple of months though.

To train an AI to recognize handwriting you need a huge dataset of handwriting examples. That is millions of samples of handwritten text + information about what the written text says in every example).

This is why the best engines only exists as a service in the cloud. The OCR engines you can install lovely that are acceptable, but far from perfect, are commercial. Parascript FormXtra is one of the better commercial ones.

The only OCR Engine that’s free and really good is Tesseract OCR but it doesn’t handle handwritten text.

Here we go again…

Five Guys have a vanilla milkshake till bacon … Yummmmm

“The only religious fanatics are the Zionist…”

Yeah, I’m pretty sure millions of women in Iran beg to differ.

I know you think you prices something there but if you were right there wouldn’t have been any mass protests with thousands of people demonstrating against how Israel is currently acting.

I’m pretty sure 150000 people wouldn’t be able to demonstrate and publicly say things like “All of the rats in Hamas”, “Crime Minister” and “Stop the War” and get away with it unharmed.

When did you see anything like that against Hamas in Gaza?

Either Hamas, which were elected to govern in Gaza, represents the Palestinian people or Hamas rules with an iron fist, effectively oppressing the Palestinians right to express their opinions.

You can’t have it both ways.

Please elaborate and feel free to edit Wikipedia:

On 8 October 2023, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, taking advantage of the Israel–Hamas war, fired guided rockets and artillery shells at Israeli positions in the occupied Shebaa Farms. Israel retaliated by launching drone strikes and artillery shells at Hezbollah positions near Lebanon’s boundary with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The outbreak of the conflict had followed Hezbollah’s declaration of support and praise for the Hamas attack on Israel, which took place on 7 October.

I’m m ok with you rewriting it as long as you agree that Israel was attacked by Hezbollah on the 8th and that Hezbollah supports, not condemning, the war crimes of Hamas on the 7th.

I could write my comment since I live in a democracy with freedom of speech… something I would not be able to do if I lived in Gaza because of Hamas.

Hezbollah attacked Israel on the 8th of October and supported Hamas attacking and kidnapping civilians on the 7th October.

Iran is actively supporting conflicts in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. So either we start talking about the religious fanatics or we just accept the USA as the world police and we should just do as they tell us to do.

I’d personally prefer the former…

Leonid Slutsky, a senior lawmaker, claimed that the attacks had “the aim of sowing panic and dividing the people of Russia” and that “the blood of the victims” was also on the hands of the United States.

Of course it’s United States that is to blame.

Holy crap, not even ChatGPT would be able to make this shit up.

Russia said…zzzzzzzZZZZZZZZ

Putin warns…zzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Then we’re two crazies now.

The ties between Hamas and Iran are well documented. The ties between Russia and Iran are well documented.

In my opinion the likelihood of this happening on that exact date by accident is next to none.

Yet another sign of the Russian economy boo…aaah f**k… I can’t even…

At this point it’s just depressing how tankies continue to defend Russia, essentially claiming everything’s fine and dandy in Russia, when Russia is sending their own people to the front lines in death traps like this.

Ok my god. I had an Samsung Omnia 7 and I loved the Metro UI.

Remote Desktop to a Windows 2008 Server and try to open the Start Menu by clicking a single pixel in the left lower corner… Shoot me.