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  • I don’t know how to feel about this.

    On the one hand, it’s cool that they pushed old electronics way beyond the known limits, but on the other hand is 120p really an accomplishment?

    Even my old Commodore 64 from 1982 was able to produce around 400p when pushed to the limit (I know progressive wasn’t thing on tvs then. I’m simplifying things to not end up on a side quest here). The norm was 200p and exploring how far the electronics could go in that resolution would be far more interesting in my opinion.

    If we’re just focusing on framerate, I’m pretty sure it would be possible to reach over the kHz limit with 1p.

    Essentially it would be possible to run 1p led-aray at 1MHz or more…


  • How good is good do you say?

    We got a pretty good results with CER at 4% and WER at 15%!

    This was on a limited dataset used to test and train which most likely means that if you introduced an even larger dataset with greater variations in handwriting style for testing the numbers might be even worse.

    Very simplified: A risk of a character wrong every 20th character and a word wrong every 7th word. The SER was around 20%.

    There’s an reason why no one has released a good model for western letters yet and why companies pay up to 1€ for capturing data from 10 handwritten pages.

    It will come but OCR isn’t as sexy as developing text2image solutions.




  • To train an AI to recognize handwriting you need a huge dataset of handwriting examples. That is millions of samples of handwritten text + information about what the written text says in every example).

    This is why the best engines only exists as a service in the cloud. The OCR engines you can install lovely that are acceptable, but far from perfect, are commercial. Parascript FormXtra is one of the better commercial ones.

    The only OCR Engine that’s free and really good is Tesseract OCR but it doesn’t handle handwritten text.


  • I’m openly critical against the whole NATO thing and DSA but you’re just being silly, ignorant, a troll or all of the above.

    I’d rather be a part of the Western military industrial complex than being Ukraine since 2014.

    If Russia just could stop aspiring to be the premier asshole of the northern hemisphere, Sweden would still be “neutral” and democratic neighbors of Russia wouldn’t be forced to put huge amounts of tax money into arms instead of healthcare.

    Russia essentially attacked the guy sitting next to them on the bus because they felt the guy was sitting too close.

    Of course everyone on the bus gets scared of the idiot attacking people!






  • If you want to promote your position - and it may not please someone and that is normal in a democratic society - take responsibility. What are you afraid to say who you are?

    While I understand the problems the propaganda machines of Russia and China (among other) causes, this here is some stupid shit

    Try to criticize Putin openly while living in Russia, speak up for the freedom to love and have sex with whoever you want in Uganda or publish pictures of Muhammad as a dog and sign all of it with your name and see what will happen.

    Anonymity is a double edged sword. While being “nice to have” in a democracy it’s a “must have” in a dictatorship.




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    I don’t have the answer your looking for but maybe a pointer for where to look and what to look for …

    What you want is essentially done in two steps.

    1. Optical Character Recognition - an image consists of pixels. There is no text, just pixels. You need a program that can see the difference between pixels forming an A and an B. Tesseract is a very competent program for this and it’s free. However, it’s command line only but I know there are GUI applications based on Tesseract.

    2. Translate text from one language to another - maybe Dialect?





  • Microsoft office has been able to open odt files since 2010.

    Furthermore, LibreOffice does not always create/save files 100% compatible with MSO. I used to use Libre office because free. Word documents I have created/edited in LibreOffice were always a little broken layout wise when the document is opened in Word.

    Whether it is because LibreOffice does a shitty job converting to docx when saving, Microsoft added in some anti competitor shit in Word or that the docx standard is vague is a discussion for another time.