The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
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·November 26, 2025coolness
suddenlybananas
Shhhhh no one cares about data contamination anymore.
pjmlp
Maybe for English, for the other human languages I use, it is still kind of hit and miss, just like speaking recognition, even with English it suffices to have an accent that is off the standard TV one.
NitpickLawyer
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__alexs
Call me when it can do Russian Cursive.
decimalenough
Seems to do an OK job:
https://g.co/gemini/share/e173d18d1d80
This is a random image from Twitter with no transcript or English translation provided, so it's not going to be in the training data.
iamflimflam1
If I went back in time to the 90s when I was doing my PhD I would absolutely blow my mind with how well handwriting OCR works now.
th0ma5
My question for OCR automation is always which digits within the numbers being read are allowed to be incorrect?
Great post and amazing progress in this field! However, I have to wonder if some of these letters were part of the training data for Gemini, since they are well-known and someone has probably already done the painstaking work of transcribing them...