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komali2 • today at 3:04 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

I set up an OCR flow using local models on all my many tens of journals stretching back the last 30 years.

I would say it's about 80% accurate, which means it's missing enough key words to make a lot of it uselessly unintelligible. I can easily compare the images against text I turn up in a grep which is nice if I'm looking for something.

Allegedly Claude set up a system for retraining for my handwriting, but it would require me to manually revise several hundred pages by hand so I don't think I'll ever do it.

https://github.com/508-dev/journal-ocr