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90s_dev ◴[] No.43975996[source]
Have any of you ever thought to yourself, this is new and interesting, and then vaguely remembered that you spent months or years becoming an expert at it earlier in life but entirely forgot it? And in fact large chunks of the very interesting things you've done just completely flew out of your mind long ago, to the point where you feel absolutely new at life, like you've accomplished relatively nothing, until something like this jars you out of that forgetfulness?

I definitely vaguely remember doing some incredibly cool things with PDFs and OCR about 6 or 7 years ago. Some project comes to mind... google tells me it was "tesseract" and that sounds familiar.

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1. didericis ◴[] No.43977605[source]
I built an auto HQ solver with tesseract when HQ was blowing up over thanksgiving (HQ was the gameshow by the vine people with live hosts). I would take a screenshot of the app during a question, share it/send it to a little local api, do a google query for the question, see how many times each answer on the first page appeared in the results, then rank the answers by probability.

Didn't work well/was a very naive way to search for answers (which is prob good/idk what kind of trouble I'd have gotten in if it let me or anyone else who used it win all the time), but it was fun to build.