Comment by wickedsight
Comment by wickedsight 14 hours ago
Understanding or experience?
Because my experience is not at all like that. If I use both Google Translate and ChatGPT on an image, ChatGPT is pretty much always better. It can even translate Japanese hand written menus quite well. With the added benefit of it being able to add context and explain what the dishes are.
I'm passively interested in small, local LLM OCR, due to couple ideas kicking around between my ears. Tried some a while ago, but most of my recent knowledge is second-hand. Waiting for someone to exclaim "hey this works now!" before committing more time :)
With the big commercial offerings like chatgpt I'd fully expect them to work fine, due to the absolutely massive horsepower in use.