[HN Gopher] Poetry from dirty OCR
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       Poetry from dirty OCR
        
       Author : MaysonL
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2023-03-23 15:57 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | BubbleRings wrote:
       | Yes, sir, we got a parrot.
        
       | version_five wrote:
       | I've poured over ((ok, grepped) ~500GB of Chroincling America
       | data to find lines that meet my low standard for nonsene,
       | basically ones that match egrep "[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]{3,}"
       | 
       | I'm super curious to know fast this was. grep is generally very
       | fast and this should be doable on a normal computer, though it
       | might take a little while
        
         | tgv wrote:
         | Would the typos (Chroincling, orthe, etc.) be on purpose?
        
           | riceart wrote:
           | That regex does not match typos.
        
           | [deleted]
        
       | eliaspro wrote:
       | This reminds me of the experiment to run paint splatters through
       | OCR and check, whether the result is valid Perl code (spoiler:
       | 93% evaluated just fine).
       | 
       | https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
        
       | chaps wrote:
       | Spent a load of time doing OCR and dealing with its failures...
       | this is absolutely wonderful, thanks for sharing!
        
       | vintermann wrote:
       | OCR is hard, but maybe we can make some real progress on it now
       | with modern AI. A context-smart church records handwriting
       | transcriber would be pretty great.
        
         | conceptme wrote:
         | https://readcoop.eu transckribus is quite nice for handwritten
         | ocr.
        
           | driscoll42 wrote:
           | Know of any good handwritten OCR libraries that are FOSS? And
           | ideally can be called through python? TrOCR is the best I've
           | seen so far though it's not amazing.
        
         | msla wrote:
         | The problem with that is the same as the problem with all
         | modern AI, it seems: AI hallucinations, which get more
         | plausible the better the model is. Humans see things, too, but
         | humans can have the insight to know when they're unsure and
         | leave lacunae in the transcription with a note to come back
         | later and discuss it with others. AIs don't have that ability,
         | and so always seem certain.
        
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