Comment on German parliament will stop using fax machines
sweng@programming.dev 4 weeks agoThe issue is not sending, it is receiving. With a fax you need to do some OCR to extract the text, which you then can feed into e.g an AI.
Comment on German parliament will stop using fax machines
sweng@programming.dev 4 weeks agoThe issue is not sending, it is receiving. With a fax you need to do some OCR to extract the text, which you then can feed into e.g an AI.
GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 4 weeks ago
ChatGPT can recognize text on images already.
sweng@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
At horrendous expense, yes. Using it for OCR makes little sense.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
My phone can recognize text on images. How hard could it be to send that data to an AI?
sweng@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
How many million times do you generally do that, and how is battery life after?
DdCno1@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I was about to say, you could do serviceable OCR on a 486, which illustrates just how little processing power is needed for conventional approaches compared to this hallucinating AI nonsense.
GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 4 weeks ago
OCR existed long before the 486. AFAIK it was already used in the 70’s or 80’s to scan mail and presort them based on the postcode. I remember that postcards had light orange boxes (presumably because this color was invisible to B/W scanners?) with dots inside where you where supposed to write the postcode numbers in.