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ryanjshaw on May 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: A forged Apple employee badge

No it hasn't. Just 1.5 years ago I tried all the latest OCR tools, including AWS, GCP and Azure services, and none of them could consistently and reliably read a receipt printed at a store.

FredPret on May 17, 2024 [–]

Receipts are hard.

- cheap paper

- cheap ink

- misprints

- abbreviations

- every store does it differently

tiagod on May 21, 2024 | [–]

Yes. Which makes OCR not a solved problem.

FredPret on May 21, 2024 | | [–]

OCR is merely step one.

Interpreting recognized characters is another matter.

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