#textextraction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #textextraction, aggregated by home.social.
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🤖🔍 Behold the epic gladiatorial showdown of... text extraction models. The OCR Arena lets you upload your grocery list in JPEG form to watch anonymous #algorithms duke it out like socially awkward robots in a battle of paper cuts. Who knew PDFs could be so competitive? 😂📄
https://www.ocrarena.ai/battle #textExtraction #OCRArena #competition #groceryList #paperCuts #HackerNews #ngated -
Learn how to extract text from screenshots and images with spectacle-ocr utility in Linux. Go from image to text in one step!
Full details here: https://ostechnix.com/extract-text-from-screenshots-images-linux/
#Tesseract #OCR #Spectacle-ocr #Spectacle #KDE #Linux #TextExtraction #Opensource
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British Library Digital Scholarship Blog: Automatic Text Recognition in Cultural Heritage Institutions survey: a brief analysis and a published dataset. “A few months ago, we circulated a brief survey to understand how other institutions use Automatic Text Recognition and to discuss the creation of a working group on the subject… I am happy to report that the anonymised data are available […]
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🚀 Just released: Find Keyword in PDFs
A Python tool to recursively search PDFs for any keyword (case-insensitive), show text snippets in context, and optionally export results to an HTML file with clickable links.Check it out here:
🔗 https://github.com/pbeens/Find-Keyword-in-PDFsIt’s fast, lightweight, and works great for researchers, educators, and anyone managing large PDF archives.
Feedback and suggestions are welcome — would love to hear how you might use it!
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Looking for a handy free tool to quickly extract text from an image in Windows?
I've started using the "Text Extractor" feature from Microsoft PowerToys. I don't think it uploads text to the cloud or uses AI: results are instant, and I'm pretty sure it's just a simple, local OCR engine.
Use Win+Shift+T to activate a cross pointer to capture the text you want and it then gets saved to your clipboard immediately.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-extractor
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Has anyone else noticed that GPT-4o seems at least slightly better than previous (OpenAI) models at pure text extraction tasks with unstructured text?
It seems like GPT-4 paraphrases more than the new model.