Keras adds virtually no overhead over torch actually… the torch backend numbers are much worse simply because Keras + torch is not compiled by default, whereas the native torch models were compiled with the best compilation config we found. Keras + torch has essentially the
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Exploring local AI alternatives to cloud API dependencies
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Yeah I've been defaulting to those because they're convenient, but I want to explore the other options – especially the ones I can run locally if I want as insurance against the API shutting down someday
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Free OCR tool for PDFs and images with practical limitations
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Yeah, I wrote about those limitations in my post https://
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Expanding Tesseract.js Language Support in OCR Tool
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Tesseract.js works with other languages, but I've not exposed that in my tool yet – I should do that!
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textract-cli: Lightweight AWS Textract Command Line Wrapper
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My other OCR project from yesterday: textract-cli, a tiny CLI wrapper around AWS's amazing but so-hard-to-use Textract API https://
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Signal addresses security bug reports through official channels
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The ‘actual user’ has not shared debug logs or reached out to us either at support@signal.org or security@signal.org—two widely publicized channels—before blasting conjecture on Twitter. Meanwhile we’ve seen this behavior in other reports, looked into it & are working on a fix.
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Ancient Open Source Libraries Power Modern AI Applications
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Also neat is that the enabling libraries here – Tesseract.js and PDF.js – are both pretty old at this point: First commit to Tesseract.js was Jun 26, 2015 https://
github.com/naptha/tessera
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… First to PDF.js was Apr 25, 2011 https://
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Tesseract.js and PDF.js: Decade-Old Libraries Still Relevant
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I love that both the libraries I'm using here – Tesseract.js and PDF.js – are nearly ten years old!
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Browser-based OCR tool using Tesseract.js and PDF.js
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I built a new tool! It's a single page web app that runs OCR against images and PDFs entirely in your browser (no file upload needed) using Tesseract.js and PDF.js
— Simon Willison (@simonw) 30 mars 2024
You can drop files onto it, or you can click to select and open them (which works on Mobile Safari as well) pic.twitter.com/HVeFtEXNMmI built a new tool! It's a single page web app that runs OCR against images and PDFs entirely in your browser (no file upload needed) using Tesseract.js and PDF.js You can drop files onto it, or you can click to select and open them (which works on Mobile Safari as well)