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January 12, 2023 1:35 PM

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How it’s made
h/t Today in Tabs, by rusty
posted by Going To Maine (9 comments total)

The How it's made is really fine reading. Thanks.
posted by seanmpuckett at 2:05 PM on January 12, 2023 [4 favorites]

Yeah, the OCR cluster of Misfit iPhones is genius.

And iOS is crazy good at OCR. For example, it recognized text on a TV way in the background of a video, so it must be capable of scanning video somewhere in the API.
posted by credulous at 2:28 PM on January 12, 2023 [2 favorites]

Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
posted by uncleozzy at 2:33 PM on January 12, 2023 [4 favorites]

Junis could probably get this running on his Amiga.
posted by dr_dank at 3:32 PM on January 12, 2023 [1 favorite]

If you’re looking for a slightly less cool approach, the same feature exists on Macs and there are tools available to play with it:


https://github.com/schappim/macOCR


https://github.com/insidegui/ocrit
posted by adamsc at 5:02 PM on January 12, 2023 [3 favorites]

adamsc: that's brilliant, especially since I can use it from Alfred.
posted by signal at 5:25 PM on January 12, 2023

It takes a fair bit for a bit of tech to amaze me, and this is amazing.
posted by zenon at 6:37 AM on January 13, 2023 [1 favorite]

Sadly the site (and blog article) seem to be gone now. :(
posted by jquinby at 6:55 AM on January 15, 2023

Welp, nevermind. It's back now. Carry on.
posted by jquinby at 1:33 PM on January 15, 2023