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Most-linked posts?

1. WOT (Web of Trust) addon logs your web browsing, TV identifies top politicians
   2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-03
2. The self-driving car -parts- that you can buy already today
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-17
3. New Free Online OCR Service Launched, Beats Google OCR
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-01
4. Kid, how have you grown? The amazing progress of computer vision in recent years
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-07
5. Free Open-Source OCR Software for Windows and the Web
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-10
6. Xamarin vs. Phonegap vs. Native from an Outsourcing Perspective
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-23

What Hacker News says?

1. kargo · 2015-06-25

   Does it have to be open-source? If free, but not trainable and restricted to Windows apps/phone is good enough, then I recommend the Microsoft OCR library. It gives you very, VERY good results out of the box. An excellent piece of work from Microsoft Research. To test it, see for example https://ocr.a9t9.com/ which uses Microsoft OCR inside. And for comparison, an OCR application with Tesseract inside: It has a dram…

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   on “Ask HN: Open source OCR library?”
2. kargo · 2015-10-18

   Submitted Hosted Microsoft OCR library: Free OCR API web service as a story · 72 points

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3. r3m6 · 2014-10-21

   Nice. They use deep convolutional neural nets, which is the key algorithm that dominated the ILSVRC 2014. This computer vision contest included, among other challenges, recognizing different bird (and dog and cat and spider and.... ) breeds. There is a blog post about ILSVRC that even uses the same xkcd comic ;) http://blog.a9t9.com/2014/10/amazing-progress-of-computer-vi...

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   on “Show HN: Using computer vision to detect birds in parks”
4. kargo · 2015-01-26

   Submitted Germany plans highway test track for self-driving cars as a story · 70 points

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5. Ladnaks · 2016-11-04

   Here are some english articles: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/01/browsing-history-sold/ http://www.dw.com/en/german-report-points-to-online-privacy-... http://blog.a9t9.com/2016/11/wot-browser-extension-collects-...

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   on “Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon”
6. booston · 2015-05-10

   Submitted Free Open-Source OCR Software for Windows and the Web as a story · 33 points

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7. xinxian · 2014-03-24Recommends

   Here is a nice list on what is already available: http://blog.a9t9.com/2014/02/self-driving-car-that-you-can-b... - yours is the collision avoidance system. Having said that, I do think CV will create tons of novel products (if I only knew which ones)

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   on “Startup Idea: Robot Cars”
8. xlancer · 2015-05-27

   Submitted Xamarin vs. Phonegap vs. Native from an Outsourcing Perspective as a story · 7 points

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9. zurbi · 2015-12-16

   Very clean UI. But how can one judge the OCR quality of this service? The service presents me a converted PDF, but how good was the conversion? Is this better than https://ocr.space ? For my private documents I would always use offline OCR software like http://blog.a9t9.com/p/free-ocr-software.html

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   on “Show HN: Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs”
10. RandomBookmarks · 2016-11-04

    Submitted Warning: The WOT (Web of Trust) extension logs all your web browsing as a story · 3 points

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11. a9t9 · 2015-10-23

    Update: I confirmed that Microsoft's OCR.dll is indeed part of Windows Server 2016. More info: http://blog.a9t9.com/2015/10/microsoft-ocr-on-windows-server...

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12. RandomBookmarks · 2016-11-03

    Submitted WOT (Web of Trust) addon logs your web browsing, TV identifies top politicians as a story · 3 points

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13. a9t9 · 2015-10-18

    a9t9 here :-) You find some information about me on http://blog.a9t9.com/p/about-this-blog.html (a9t9) is a place where I experiment with side projects, and I want to keep this separate from my day job. Therefore I am somewhat stingy with the personal information on the blog. That said, you are welcome to email me for details.

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14. veiko · 2016-09-08

    Submitted Germany clarifies ethics for self-driving cars: Treat kids and adults as equals as a story · 3 points

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15. kargo · 2015-10-09

    "To put that in context, this is in my opinion — and to the best of our lab’s knowledge — the best system at transcribing Mandarin voice queries in the world." There is some data about this claim here: https://gigaom.com/2014/12/18/baidu-claims-deep-learning-bre... Anyone here that has actually used their system and compared it to others? The data looks impressive, but I am a bit skeptical of this claim, because I c…

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    on “How Baidu is improving Mandarin voice recognition with deep learning”
16. kargo · 2015-09-21

    Submitted Baidu launches free OCR API (and nobody noticed?) as a story · 3 points

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17. Sephr · 2015-05-10

    Pretty sure it's illegal too, since he didn't even care to include the license for the Microsoft.Windows.Ocr[1] package used in this project. The author seems to care about people redistributing their work as they added a GPL license to the project, but they didn't care enough to include the licenses of the libraries doing the actual work. An interesting part of the license that the author is likely violating is the…

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    on “Free Open-Source OCR Software for Windows and the Web”
18. kargo · 2015-08-20

    Submitted New evidence for the next startup bubble? as a story · 3 points

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19. zumi · 2013-12-26

    Submitted The Darpa Robotics Challenge – Just RC-controlled toys? as a story · 3 points

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20. kargo · 2015-08-23

    Submitted Taipei for Geeks – 8 things to do (and not to do) as a story · 2 points

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21. kargo · 2015-07-17

    Submitted Applied OCR: Create Pinyin Subtitles for Chinese Movies on the Fly as a story · 2 points

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22. kargo · 2015-02-27

    Submitted Computer learns to play games, using only the pixels and the game score as input as a story · 2 points

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23. kargo · 2015-02-11

    Submitted NoName OCR Beats Google Docs – A Review of Online OCR Services as a story · 2 points

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24. kargo · 2015-05-01

    Submitted New Free Online OCR Service Launched, Beats Google OCR as a story · 1 points

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25. kargo · 2015-03-23

    Submitted Mobile Development – Xamarin vs. Phonegap vs. Native from a Freelancer Perspective as a story · 1 points

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26. nikitac · 2014-10-16

    Submitted Is Cruise Automation still on track for 2015? as a story · 1 points

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27. nikitac · 2014-10-07

    Submitted Is Cruise Automation still on track for 2015? as a story · 1 points

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28. nikitac · 2014-10-07

    Submitted Kid, how have you grown? The amazing progress of computer vision in recent years as a story · 1 points

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29. kargo · 2014-02-17

    Submitted The self-driving car -parts- that you can buy already today as a story · 1 points

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