Ask Hackaday: How Do You Digitize Your Documents?

Like many of you, I have a hard time getting rid of stuff. I’ve got boxes and boxes of weirdo bits and bobs, and piles of devices that I’ll eventually get around to stripping down into …

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Word of the Day: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) 📝

Knowing how OCR works is crucial for converting paperwork into editable text, automating tasks, and boosting productivity. ✨

Make your PDFs smarter with DeftPDF’s OCR tools!

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#OpticalCharacterRecognition #PDFTools #DeftPDF #DigitalDocuments #PDFEditing

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