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   lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 20:51:23 JST lainy
   any actually blind people here on fedi who can tell me if they use software to describe images / OCR stuff?
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 20:55:18 JST lainy

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     • Piggo :verified_horse:
     @piggo that already works, but especially OCR has been working for decades now, so it seems strange to me that blind people wouldn't use it, but I don't know anything about it.
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     Piggo :verified_horse: (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 20:55:19 JST Piggo :verified_horse:

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     @lain saw them talk of using AI for that recently
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     eal (eal@post.ebin.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 21:06:09 JST eal

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     @lain @piggo OCR works but 2023 AI works way better wirth suboptimal inputs, it's not even comparable
     
     t. tried running OCR on 1940s phonebook scans yesterday and it wasn't great
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 21:06:37 JST lainy

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     @eal @piggo yeah, i mean more for stuff like screenshots
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 21:12:26 JST lainy

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     • eal
     @eal @piggo i wouldn't think they'd know it, i'd just think that hitting 'ocr and read' on any random image would be normal, and the results should be good for things like screenshots of text.
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     eal (eal@post.ebin.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 21:12:27 JST eal

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     • Piggo :verified_horse:
     @lain @piggo how would a blind person know if it's a screenshot before using a voice tool on it?
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 21:13:09 JST lainy

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     @eal @piggo i also recently used chatgpt to transcribe a horrible video screenshot of a 50 year old machine-typed recipe with coffee stains and everything, worked really well when 'normal' OCR failed.
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     Florian Diesch (diesch@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 21:30:58 JST Florian Diesch

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     • Marco
     @lain Maybe ask @marco
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 21:59:19 JST lainy

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     • eal
     @pony @piggo @eal chatgpt can do it (via api, too), i tried the local variants (bakllava, llava) but they aren't good. Apple released something a month ago in the same space but i haven't tried it.
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     Cat poni, lgbt feminist drag nato demon (pony@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 21:59:21 JST Cat poni, lgbt feminist drag nato demon

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     • eal
     @eal @lain @piggo is there some ready made solution I can use? I really wanted to do something with my journals but like it’s not that easy to read even for me
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     Matthew W. Thomas (mwt@econtwitter.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 22:41:09 JST Matthew W. Thomas

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     @weirdwriter is blind and wrote a very interesting article about this: https://robertkingett.com/posts/6230/

     @eal @lain @piggo

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     eal (eal@post.ebin.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 22:41:11 JST eal

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     @lain @piggo Yeah, I've never seen an actual blind person's opinion on this either
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     Robert Kingett backup (weirdwriter@tweesecake.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 22:41:17 JST Robert Kingett backup

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     • Matthew W. Thomas

     Thank you for sharing! It really is a strange feeling being the only very vocal skeptic within your own marjonalized community but share the post if you like it! I mean, again, if you like it. LOL! Thanks for sharing! @mwt @eal@post.ebin.club @lain@lain.com @piggo