Dear List members,
The new drag-and-drop interface to Google Vision OCR that I mentioned last month is now ready for use on Skrutable. Go straight to
the new subpage skrutable.info/ocr, or look for the small link on the main page, lower-left. The FAQs should answer most questions and get you up and running in a few minutes.
Many thanks to those who provided detailed feedback! (Arushi, Don, Herman, Jan, Patrick, Vyom—apologies if others are slipping my mind today.) It helped me equip the tool with a number of usability features and provide detailed instructions, especially to hopefully de-scarify Google Billing. That said, I'll happily make further improvements as needed.
Finally, I learned the great news last week that Dharmamitra may also soon release a very similar drag-and-drop interface for OCR with Google Gemini, with no billing setup needed. In my recent tests, Gemini and Cloud Vision each produce strong results, but they make different errors, suggesting that combining their outputs could yield the best accuracy. For that use case, I happen to have
another side-project prototype that could prove useful, which I'll keep tinkering on.
Here for any and all questions, of course!
Kind wishes,
Tyler