[HN Gopher] A review and how-to guide for Microsoft Form Recognizer
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       A review and how-to guide for Microsoft Form Recognizer
        
       Author : ctk_brian
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-07-13 19:08 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | king_magic wrote:
       | We expected Form Recognizer would reward the overhead of training
       | and managing custom models with superior performance, but we were
       | disappointed. In our testing, Form Recognizer's accuracy was poor
       | and its response times were way too slow for synchronous use
       | cases.
       | 
       | Ouch.
        
       | deertick1 wrote:
       | I had no Idea this tech existed.
       | 
       | Imo there are some veeeeeery profitable business opportunities if
       | this can be integrated into certain platforms for certain
       | industries.
       | 
       | I was thinking about how to make something like thos. Looks like
       | google, Amazon, and Microsoft all beat me to it lmao
        
         | blihp wrote:
         | The trick is in handling the failures which will be high. So
         | it's a question of whether the application/customer would
         | tolerate something significantly less than 100% (and presumably
         | fix it themselves) and/or your solution would include the
         | manual mop up for when the automation fails. (i.e. there need
         | to be business processes to fill in the gaps since it can't be
         | completely automated end-to-end)
         | 
         | Also, if you have a specific industry/application to target you
         | should be able to achieve better results than these services at
         | a lower operational cost. This is a very common business need
         | with solutions dating back to the early PC days and it doesn't
         | look like they've come up with some unique solution. They've
         | just bundled some rather tedious to develop functionality into
         | convenient frameworks and services and marked it up for their
         | trouble... but there's still quite a bit of assembly required.
        
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