📰 Dev.to · Andrew Judd

People hear "I replaced my OCR pipeline with a vision model" and the first thing they ask about is cost. Fair question. I assumed it would be expensive too. Und

Sunday morning. I'm close to just giving up and typing everything by hand. But I want to try one more thing. Instead of OCR to get characters, what if I just as

Tesseract can't handle the handwriting. Time to spend some money. AWS Textract has built-in handwriting detection. It's better. But "better" and "good enough" a

Long weekend. I've got a pile of handwritten documents that need to become structured data. Should be a weekend project. OCR exists, it's been around forever, t