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Show HN: OCR Workbench: AI OCR for hard documents

https://github.com/viking2917/ocr-workbench
2•viking2917•3h ago
OCR on old documents is hard. OCR Workbench uses AI for OCR and provides an editing environment to clean things up, as is inevitably required.

Inspired by this Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048698

Backstory: I was having trouble producing transcriptions of Colonial American documents, which have their own unique challenges for OCR, and things like Tesseract fail miserably. So I built something. Uses Gemini and seems to work pretty well (disclaimer: you need your own API key). I didn't build Claude but I expect it works similarly well.

FWIW: largely vibe coded, with human review and intervention as required.

Ask HN: What do you think of this novel Rubik's Cube variant?

1•amichail•1m ago•0 comments

New Intel CPU Flaw Bypasses Spectre v2 Defenses to Leak Kernel Memory

https://cyberinsider.com/new-intel-cpu-flaw-bypasses-spectre-v2-defenses-to-leak-kernel-memory/
2•pierremenard•2m ago•0 comments

Ron Buckton laid off from Microsoft

https://twitter.com/rbuckton/status/1922364558426911039
3•latchkey•6m ago•0 comments

AI Tool Uses Face Photos to Estimate Biological Age and Predict Cancer Outcomes

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/ai-face-photos-tool-estimate-age-predict-cancer-outcomes
1•pseudolus•6m ago•0 comments

Microsoft to lay off 6k workers despite streak of profitable quarters

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/13/microsoft-layoffs
1•ommz•7m ago•0 comments

José Mujica, Uruguay's modest leader who transformed the country, dies at 89

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/americas/uruguay-president-jose-pepe-mujica-obit-intl-latam
1•marcodiego•8m ago•0 comments

D Slices

https://dlang.org/articles/d-array-article.html
1•teleforce•8m ago•0 comments

'A New Era' of Cancer Therapies

https://undark.org/2025/05/12/cancer-therapies-new-era/
1•EA-3167•9m ago•0 comments

Emacs: My New Doric Themes

https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2025-05-13-emacs-doric-themes/
1•robenkleene•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: AI Founders, how do you handle liability clauses?

1•midgard27•14m ago•1 comments

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice

https://www.wired.com/story/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals/
1•hydrolox•14m ago•0 comments

Dusk OS C Compiler

https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/doc/comp/c.txt?__goaway_challenge=js-refresh&__goaway_id=09245079d4cf1efcea00bf4a44558faf&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fduskos.org%2F
2•doener•15m ago•0 comments

Google might replace the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button with AI Mode

https://www.theverge.com/news/665560/google-search-ai-mode-feeling-lucky-tests
1•mfiguiere•18m ago•0 comments

Ferroid: High-Throughput Snowflake-Like ID Generator in Rust

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1klkd7z/ferroid_a_customizable_snowflakestyle_id/
1•s0l0ist•18m ago•0 comments

Binary Formats Are Better Than JSON in Browsers

https://adamfaulkner.github.io/binary_formats_are_better_than_json_in_browsers.html
1•adamkf•18m ago•0 comments

China's AI-powered humanoid robots aim to transform manufacturing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-ai-powered-humanoid-robots-aim-transform-manufacturing-2025-05-13/
1•gray_amps•19m ago•0 comments

Saudi Arabia's Humain Partners with Nvidia on AI Goals as Trump Visits

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-partners-with-nvidia-spur-ai-goals-trump-visits-2025-05-13/
1•bit_qntum•20m ago•0 comments

Nvidia CEO's net worth nears $120B as shares surge on Saudi chip deal

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-ceos-net-worth-nears-120-billion-shares-surge-saudi-chip-deal-2025-05-13/
1•byte-bolter•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's your best "data to wisdom" hack for SaaS?

2•korky•21m ago•0 comments

Flattening Rust's Learning Curve

https://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/
1•birdculture•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Economists, what's your opinion on US tariffs?

4•pinkmuffinere•27m ago•0 comments

Trakt: Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025

https://forums.trakt.tv/t/upcoming-vip-renewal-pricing-changes-effective-may-20-2025/56649
1•27stkt6s•30m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Vibe Coding

https://www.haydenbleasel.com/blog/vibecoding
1•fmerian•31m ago•0 comments

Forgetting Is the Friend of Learning

https://deliramente.com.br/posts/Forgetting-is-the-friend-of-learning
1•Dnllira•31m ago•1 comments

Student Loan Delinquencies Are Back and Credit Scores Take a Tumble

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/05/student-loan-delinquencies-are-back-and-credit-scores-take-a-tumble/
3•jnord•32m ago•0 comments

US District Ct. for W. Pa. allows removal of Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.pawd.318716/gov.uscourts.pawd.318716.72.0_4.pdf
3•treetalker•33m ago•1 comments

Type-Constrained Code Generation with Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09246
2•tough•34m ago•0 comments

Eliminating Array Bounds Checks

https://www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/eliminating-array-bounds-checks/
1•mfiguiere•36m ago•0 comments

How (memory) safe is Zig?

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/
1•vortex_ape•37m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Relational DB to Graph DB?

1•mysteriousBag•37m ago•0 comments