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syncyesterday at 4:12 PM3 repliesview on HN

This is essentially a (vibe-coded?) wrapper around PaddleOCR: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

The "guts" are here: https://github.com/majcheradam/ocrbase/blob/7706ef79493c47e8...


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M4R5H4LLyesterday at 6:34 PM

Most production software is wrappers around existing libraries. The relevant question is whether this wrapper adds operational or usability value, not whether it reimplements OCR. If there are architectural or reliability concerns, it’d be more useful to call those out directly.

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Orasyesterday at 4:59 PM

Claude is included in the contributors, so the OP didn’t hide it

Tiberiumyesterday at 5:46 PM

At this point it feels like HN is becoming more like Reddit, most people upvote before actually checking the repo.