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vintermannyesterday at 9:01 AM2 repliesview on HN

I appreciate having an OCR interface rather than having to chat with a bot, but unfortunately chatting with Gemini 3 gives far better results than this. I gave it the document Gemini 3 got a surprisingly good result on:

https://urn.digitalarkivet.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-rk10101508282...

and the output wasn't even recognizably Danish.

Just out of pity I gave it a birthday card from my sister written in very readable modern handwriting, and while in managed to make the contents of that readable, the errors it made reveals that it has very little contextual intelligence. Even if ! and ? can be hard to tell apart sometimes, they weren't here, and you do not usually start a birthday letter with "Happy Birthday brother?"


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suspended_stateyesterday at 4:20 PM

> got a surprisingly good result

> the output wasn't even recognizably Danish

How would you know that it's good then?

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