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		rasz on Aug 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR ... This is how you end up with "Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents" https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres... I dont want hallucinations in places where OCR loses plot. I want either better OCR or error message telling me to repeat the scan.

rasz on Aug 11, 2024 [–]

After thinking about it some more this is exactly what tom7 implemented in 'Badness 0' http://tom7.org/bovex/ You get a pretty, but not entirely correct output.

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