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Georgiana Brummell
Anyone who is blind, or who has worked with the blind, knows how expensive our technology can be. This couldn't be more true with relation to braille displays. Even the cheapest costs at least $799, and it's already behind the newest in that line, at $899. This is the Orbit Reader 20 and 20+. Now, a student in India wants to change that by creating a display that is truly affordable (under $50)! Please pass this on, so that we can give him greater recognition within the blind community. Even if it costs a bit more than he initially suspected it would, there is no excuse for the $2,000 to $5,000 average price of such technology when cheaper alternatives can be designed! He is determined to bring this to market, so let's help him do it and show our appreciation for his hard work on this life-changing project!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinanderton/2024/11/30/14-year-old-boy-invents-digital-braille-reader-and-wins-3500/

#access #ACB #accessibility #affordability #blind #braille #BrailleDisplays #children #education #employment #independence #India #learning #NFB #ocr #parent #reading #science #school #students #teachers #technology #work #writing
Forbes14-Year-Old Boy Invents Digital Braille Reader And Wins $3,500He is in the ninth grade and has a passion for engineering and helping others. He had a goal of creating a digital braille reader for less than $50 and he succeeded.
#writing
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Georgiana Brummell

Anyone who is blind, or who has worked with the blind, knows how expensive our technology can be. This couldn't be more true with relation to braille displays. Even the cheapest costs at least $799, and it's already behind the newest in that line, at $899. This is the Orbit Reader 20 and 20+. Now, a student in India wants to change that by creating a display that is truly affordable (under $50)! Please pass this on, so that we can give him greater recognition within the blind community. Even if it costs a bit more than he initially suspected it would, there is no excuse for the $2,000 to $5,000 average price of such technology when cheaper alternatives can be designed! He is determined to bring this to market, so let's help him do it and show our appreciation for his hard work on this life-changing project!

forbes.com/sites/kevinanderton…

Forbes14-Year-Old Boy Invents Digital Braille Reader And Wins $3,500He is in the ninth grade and has a passion for engineering and helping others. He had a goal of creating a digital braille reader for less than $50 and he succeeded.
#access#ACB#accessibility
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Aral Balkan

So if you’re using Mastodon on the web, you can press the ⚠️ALT button and then follow the “Detect text from picture” link.

On Mac/iOS, you can select text on images as if they were text by clicking/tapping and dragging and paste that in (might be more accurate; that’s what I did).

PS. This was meant to be a reply to mastodon.social/@fatbrit/11421 but somehow didn’t get threaded correctly (was using the web client instead of Mona. I somehow manage to do that there sometimes. Has happened before.) :)

Screenshot of Mastodon posting interface showing a picture being added with the ALT button and Detect text from picture link highlighted.
#altText#fediTips#detectFromPicture
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪

And ultra compact #AI model for document #OCR by #IBM and #HuggingFace

marktechpost.com/2025/03/18/ib

MarkTechPost · IBM and Hugging Face Researchers Release SmolDocling: A 256M Open-Source Vision Language Model for Complete Document OCRConverting complex documents into structured data has long posed significant challenges in the field of computer science. Traditional approaches, involving ensemble systems or very large foundational models, often encounter substantial hurdles such as difficulty in fine-tuning, generalization issues, hallucinations, and high computational costs. Ensemble systems, though efficient for specific tasks, frequently fail to generalize due to their dependency on handcrafted pipelines for each sub-task. On the other hand, multimodal foundational models, although powerful, often suffer from high computational costs and reliability issues like hallucinations. Researchers from IBM and Hugging Face have recently addressed these challenges by releasing SmolDocling, a 256M
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Fabian Kern :vz24130: :tux:

Wir sind auf der Suche nach einem OpenSource Vertragsverwaltungssystem. Im Idealfall wäre es in die @nextcloud integriert.
Ich stelle mir sowas vor wie PDF via #OCR scannen auf Vollext. Zusätzlich werden Vertragspartner und Schlagworte / Kategorien manuell erfasst um die Suche zu vereinfachen.

Hat da jemand Erfahrungen bzw. Ideen?

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Jörg Knappen

@overholt @researchbuzz

Searching for early uses of the term "ergative" I came across a Google book published in the early 19th century with the alledged phrase
"ergativ elektrisch werdende".
Here, two-column layout and hyphenation did the trick.

google.de/books/edition/Deutsc

Google BooksDeutsche Zeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts
#linguistics#ergative#OCR
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Solar 🌄Garden

@PaulaToThePeople yes, some more processing would be needed, but #OCR apps were doing that on tiny slow machines when I entered personal computers in the 1980's. The first thing the OCR app does is looks for blocks of text. If the block size ≈ image size, it's essentially a meme. The alt text "recognise text from image" tool on this version of mastodon does just that, so even evaluating "is meme"? shouldn't be too hard on a server, especially if opt-in.

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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

@gisiger Oh, I'd love to use fountain pens and #paper for as much as possible.

However, I also know that I won't carry a paper notebook which contains all necessary information.

Furthermore, I'm not manually transferring handwritten stuff into digital.

And there is no viable offline handwriting recognition I could use.

Or workflows that are suitable to integrate analog and digital which scales.

And yes, I do have an awesome #Boox #NoteAir which I could use for that but the digital environment is not there yet. (I use it just to annotate PDF documents.)

Therefore, I'm 100% digital with my #PIM. 😞🤷

(corrected wrong language flag)

#OCR#fountainpens#Zettelkasten
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David Haskiya

Two weeks ago my team released an open source HTR-pipeline software we call HTRflow!

We also released an open version of our base-model for transcribing old Swedish handwriting.

NB: HTRflow can of course be configured to use other models than our own!

Who is HTRflow for? We imagine it's e.g. organisations who need to be able to process documents in a local secure environment or simply wish to run inference locally to cut costs.

More info, huggingface.co/blog/Gabriel/ht

huggingface.coHTRflow - A tool for HTR and OCRA Blog post by Gabriel Borg on Hugging Face
#HTR#OpenSource#OCR
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