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Möph

Warum ist #OCR auf #Linux eigentlich immer so ein Hass?
Warum kann das nicht einfach regelrecht "funktionieren"?

Ich habe jetzt gestern das Paper von der Bibo abgescannt bekommen und will es jetzt mit Anmerkungen und Markierungen und nicht nur als BILD in mein #Zotero schieben.

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JabRef

After a thorough and competitive selection process, we're excited to announce and warmly welcome our Google Summer of Code 2025 contributors 🎉

Our projects are:
* Git Integration for JabRef
* Integration of JabRef with VS Code via Language Server Protocol (LSP)
* OCR and AI Integration to improve handling of ancient documents in JabRef
* Design and Implementation of a Welcome Walkthrough for JabRef

#JabRef #TexLateX #javafx #academia #git #ai #ocr #VsCode #opensource #GSOC

Stay tuned!

The number 4 in front of the word GSOC
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de.hypotheses

Drei geschichtswissenschaftliche Forschungsprojekte, drei Mal künstliche Intelligenz: Wie beeinflusst KI historisches Lernen und politische Sinnstiftung? Wie können #LLMs helfen, herabwürdigende Sprache in historischen Reformationsquellen zu erkennen? Und wie können mit #OCR digitalisierte Texte mit künstlicher Intelligenz bereinigt und besser nutzbar gemacht werden?

Eine Zwischenbilanz zum Einsatz von KI in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Forschung ⬇

digihistbie.hypotheses.org/325

Digital History BielefeldKünstliche Intelligenz als Teil geschichtswissenschaftlicher Praxis. Projekte und Perspektiven der Digital History BielefeldAm 27. März 2025 fand der erste diesjährige Projekttag unseres Arbeitsbereichs zum Thema „Künstliche Intelligenz und Geschichtswissenschaft“ statt. Unsere Diskussionen haben uns aufs Neue vor Augen geführt, wie sehr Prozesse in Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft von technologischen Entwicklungen geprägt sind – mit Konsequenzen, die wir erst zu verstehen beginnen. Neben einzelnen Projektvorstellungen haben wir uns auch … „Künstliche Intelligenz als Teil geschichtswissenschaftlicher Praxis. Projekte und Perspektiven der Digital History Bielefeld“ weiterlesen
#KI#histodons
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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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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

TechCrunch: Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file. “On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents. Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition (OCR) API that can turn any PDF into a text file to make it easier for AI models to ingest.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/techcrunch-mistral-adds-a-new-api-that-turns-any-pdf-document-into-an-ai-ready-markdown-file/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · TechCrunch: Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#ai#aiassisted#fileconversion
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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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Anne Lienchen
Jedes Mal, wenn ich bei der Arbeit in der Event-Kommunikation stecke, bekomme ich wieder selber Lust zu starten. Dann schweife ich ab und durchstöbere meine privaten Fotos von den Hunde-Events. Prokrastinieren kann ich. :D Ich bin noch unsicher, ob ich Gesicht zeigen möchte hier im Fediverse. Daher mache ich mich jetzt erstmal weiter unkenntlich, auch wenn's creepy aussieht und manchmal sehr schade um den Gesichtsausdruck ist. Gesichtsfasching kann nämlich nicht nur Ylvi.
:D

Foto: KaBo Photography & Art, aufgenommen bei Camp Canis Summer Special im Hoope Park 2024
Model: Ylvi und ich

Every time I'm involved in event communication at work, I get the urge to get to the starting line again myself. Then I drift off and browse through my private photos of the dog events. I can do procrastination. :D I'm still unsure whether I want to show my face here in Fediverse. That's why I'm continuing to make myself unrecognisable for now, even if it looks creepy and sometimes it's a shame because of the facial expressions. It's not just Ylvi who can do funny faces.

Photo: KaBo Photography & Art, taken at Camp Canis Summer Special in Hoope Park 2024
Model: Ylvi and me

#dogs #dogsofpixelfed #dogsofmastodon #ocr #hindernislauf #canicross #sports #running #sup #balance #matschparty #schlammschlacht #europeansleddog #sleddogs #sleddogsports
Hund und Halterin auf einem Stand-up Board. Die Frau kniet, der Hund steht vor ihr. Aufgenommen auf einem Hindernislauf für Menschen und Hunde.
#sleddogsports
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