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[+] -20 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Skill issue. I used AI to create a web application that extracts the serial number from an image into text. This allows us to just simply take a picture rather than than having to type the serial number manually while using a magnifying glass. Significantly speeding up the process and lowering error rate.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    indeed, anyone with skills would have whipped that up in noetime without AI... or use any of the many apps that already does that

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For real, you can copy text out of images on most modern phones so this isn’t really an issue anymore

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    You could've just looked for off the shelf OCR software and it would probably be better, no LLM needed. OCR has been around for far longer than the current LLM bubble.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're reading text from a picture. That is OCR.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    you could argue semantically

    No. There's nothing to argue there, it's the definition of OCR.

    Also, do you believe that LLMs found a new, novel way of doing OCR? That's not how they work, LLMs don't invent, they don't innovate, they're simply unable to do that. What they do, when they work correctly, is that they use already known and established techniques and tools. So to quote your top comment in this chain:

    Skill issue

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