Comment by shbooms
17 hours ago
often times you will have requirements that the documents you release be digitally searchable and so in these cases, this would not be an option
17 hours ago
often times you will have requirements that the documents you release be digitally searchable and so in these cases, this would not be an option
This made me think of something I came across recently that’s almost the opposite problem of requiring PDFs to be searchable. A local government would publish PDFs where the text is clearly readable on screen, but the selectable text layer is intentionally scrambled, so copy/paste or search returns garbage. It's a very hostile thing to do, especially with public data!
Hostile indeed, and also happens in user-facing documents like product manuals!
run some ocr on them after to recreate the text layer?
With the aggressive push of LLMs and Generative AI ..i am expecting a lot of OCR features to become "smarter" by default, namely go beyond mechanical OCR and start inserting hallucinations and sematically/contextually "more correct" information in OCR output
It's not hard to imagine some powerful LLMs being able to undo some light redactions that are deducible based on context