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You can't OCR handwriting. There are some AIs that do claim handwriting recognition, but I've yet to find a single one that can read my notes.


Yeah I was talking about Google Vision or similar. Though USPS has been doing handwriting recognition since the 80's. I don't it got very good until the late 90's though.


> Though USPS has been doing handwriting recognition since the 80's.

On a very restricted dictionary of possible content, with a pool of people employed to fix anything where the computer is unsure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c


I've only recently started using LLMs for OCR, and so far they've done a great job with my handwriting.




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