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Deja Vu

Javascript Backend Security Programming Webdev

2 months ago 9.8M views 0 shares

Deja Vu

Two completely valid reasons to despise the same framework, yet somehow you're the unreasonable one for suggesting literally any alternative at the standup. The privacy advocate hates Tesseract because it phones home to Google. The backend dev hates it because they have to npm install 47 packages just to OCR a receipt. Both are correct. Both are suffering. Neither will win the argument with the PM who already put it in the sprint. Fun fact: Tesseract was originally developed by HP in the 1980s and later open-sourced. Google picked it up in 2006, which is when the trust issues began.

OCR Is Infuriating

AI Programming Debugging Testing

1 year ago 525.1K views 1 shares

OCR Is Infuriating

The sweet irony of OCR technology! Nothing quite matches that special rage when your computer—with its fancy machine learning algorithms—somehow can't recognize text in a font IT LITERALLY INSTALLED ITSELF. It's like having a roommate who stocks the fridge with beer but then forgets what beer looks like. "What's this strange amber liquid in bottles? Never seen it before!" And yet we keep trusting computers with increasingly complex tasks while they still struggle with the digital equivalent of "is this my hand?"