ICYMI: Leonardo AI released Lightning XL model which can generate images 3 times faster
TOOLS
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Preview of DALL-E 3 Inpainting Editor in ChatGPT
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A preview of the DALLE-3 image editor with inpainting on ChatGPT
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ChatGPT Editor feature update points to upcoming release
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ChatGPT FAQ was recently updated with more info about the Editor feature. This indicates that it is very close to release and you should expect inpainting to come very soon
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Data Extraction Usability: Addressing Truncation Problems for Users
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The bigger problem here is a usability one: explaining to end users why their extracted data was randomly cut off half way through (or risking them not noticing) isn't great
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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://
simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/30/oc
r-pdfs-images/
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Browser-based packages loadable from CDN networks
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Do you know anything like that which runs directly in the browser via a package you can load from a CDN?
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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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Seven Free Online AI Courses Available from NVIDIA
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RT @AndrewBolis 7 FREE online courses in #AI from @nvidia @NVIDIAAI
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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://
github.com/simonw/textrac
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Privacy-First JavaScript Project: Local Processing No Servers
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That's more sophisticated than I want to go with this particular project – the goal here is privacy-first, no servers, document stays on your computer and all the work happens in JavaScript running in your browser