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ckardaristoday at 6:18 PM1 replyview on HN

Any text-centric action will have a great advantage when done inside a terminal. I would think the equivalent in GUIs would be first-class OCR support on the compositor level. I am not informed about any progress made in that region to be honest, so I cannot tell how close we are (or not) to this.


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jolmgtoday at 7:20 PM

OCR will always ultimately be guesswork. It's up to the font used whether 1/I/l/| or O/0 or -/‒/–/—/― can be differentiated.