Agents OCR'd years of his journals into searchable text, checked by multiple models

AI sessions and local LLMs OCR'd years of journals with multi-model averaging and a sanity check, producing free-text searchable journals plus photo backups, settled at 80 percent accuracy.

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How it works

Agent sessions and local models OCR years of journals
With multi-model averaging and a sanity check
Producing free-text searchable journals plus photo backups

Why it’s worth knowing

Averaging models against each other is how handwriting gets read honestly.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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