Retrotechtacular: IBM’s The World Of OCR

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) forms the bridge between the analog world of paper and the world of machines. The modern-day expectation is that when we point a smartphone camera at some charac…

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Qwen3-2B-VL cho OCR thật tuyệt vời. Cài đặt docker và mã nguồn trên GitHub. Model này cho kết quả OCR ấn tượng với card đồ họa 3060. #Qwen3_2B_VL #OCR #AI #Trích_xuất_văn_bản #OpticalCharacterRecognition #Trí_tuệ_nhân_tạo

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1p4hkaf/qwen32bvl_for_ocr_is_actually_insane_dockerized/

Chrome в Android теперь позволит увеличивать текст без увеличения всей страницы

Экранная читалка Google TalkBack также теперь позволяет задавать дополнительные вопросы по изображению.

https://tefida.com/chromes-android-app-will-now-let-you-zoom-in-on-text-without-affecting-the-webpage/

#google #android #chrome #gemini #opticalcharacterrecognition #talkback #новостиit #tefidacom

Windows-Insider: Microsoft verpasst Snipping Tool Texterkennung

Microsoft verteilt eine aktualisierte Version des Snipping Tools im Windows-Insider-Kanal. Die aktualisierte App kann jetzt Text extrahieren. 

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Malware war auch im App Store: Stealer klauen Passwörter per OCR aus Screenshots

Die auf Android wie iOS abzielende Malware steckt in unscheinbar wirkenden Apps. Diese erschleichen sich Zugriff auf Fotos und nutzen Texterkennung.

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The following #ChartingDSEA panel is on #OpticalCharacterRecognition in East Asian scripts. First, Wayne de Fremery on 'Authoring Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Solutions for East Asian Special Collections', who's warns that failure to reproduce historical scripts digitally endagers survival of these languages! OCR is an infrastructure which represents how we think and argue humanity. To conduct humanities research, we must be able to apply OCR to various scripts and styles.
 
U.S. Navy Researchers Seek to Enhance Deck Safety, Efficiency with New Algorithm

Naval Innovative, Science, and Engineering (NISE) Funds NOCTRNAL Project for Automated Aircraft Tracking on Flight Decks

BERD@NFDI stellt Optical-Character-Recognition-Services vor

How Did You Digitize Your Journals?

I’ve got about 35 volumes of journals I’ve kept over the years, and I’d like to digitize them. The problem is there are so many options out there it’s overwhelming at first …

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Registration is now open for Studio #DigitalHumanities Lab Winter School Series 'Humanities for the Future'
12-15 February 2024 covering basic coding skills, knowledge
of 3D modelling, #OpticalCharacterRecognition and key concepts in #AI and #LargeLanguageModels, as well as tools for communicating with experts in the field.

DEADLINES
_12 December 2023_ (Early Bird)
_31 January 2024_ (Regular)

BURSARIES
https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/grants-and.../comel-grant/

INFO AND REGISTRATION
https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/studiolo-digital-lab-2024/

Comèl Grant - CSMBR

The scheme is devised to support young scholars willing to partake in the events organised at the Domvs Comeliana.

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