I need to take the time to see what the Laravel side of this is so perhaps I can adapt for my RN app too.

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and I don't know whether it can be reset for a date in December or not. Cornell seemed anxious that it should not come off too close to Christmas, and of course New Mexican practice would support him. I will take this up with the Judge and with Hanna the moment I can get rid of the brief. Meanwhile I would like to know whether there is anything else in which I can be useful to you, since it behooves me to be diligent in view of uncomfortable relations with the present management.

Are you going East in December?

Has any word come from Hagerman?

Were there any noteworthy developments at the hearings on the Tenorio tract?

I have no intimation yet whether I will be wanted in Washington, but the chances are that I will not.

With regards to all the brethren and flock, Dan

Very sincerely yours, George H. H. Baser

Of course a local solution like Ollama is preferable for privacy reasons but, for now, the OCR performance of available local models is just not very good, especially from handwritten documents. With a couple thousand pages of journal entries, that means a lot of post-processing and editing.

It's not free, but its accuracy for for handwritten documents is the best out there (I am the founder, so am biased, but I'm really excited about where the accuracy is now). It could save you time and for your 100 page project would cost only $12.

I've been working on a fun, free tool that uses AI to analyze your handwriting and provide constructive feedback, including tips for improvement. It's a hobby project that I have spun off my OCR work, and I'm excited to share it with you all. No strings attached and of course the results aren't to be taken very seriously — just give it a try if you're curious!

https://www.handwritingocr.com/rate-my-writing

Happy writing!

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There's no way to fine tune at present, but it does pretty well with all but the scrawliest of handwriting out of the box.

btw I wrote to the email in your profile, not sure if you got it.

Thanks for the feedback and great suggestions. It's something I will try to implement in the coming days.

p.s. I tried to make my affiliation clear - I wrote "I’m the founder" in the original comment above :)

I expect the answer may be a combination of the two.

I’m still experimenting with pricing, and agree that per page pricing makes logical sense. Still, it’s harder for me to build a sustainable business on that model.

I will probably test a few per-page or single payment options soon, though.

It is designed to do exactly what you are looking for, and has been used very successfully by many others for that same purpose (I’m the founder).

It is not as cheap per page as Google Document AI, for example, but it does tend to be much more accurate for handwriting, so usually ends up cheaper when editing time is factored in.

If you find it does work well with your handwriting, please get in touch and I can try to fit the pricing to your use case.

Instead, I became fascinated by the massive improvements in OCR and how they can be applied to digitising boring paper records. Decided to start out with the most boring problem of them all - credit card and bank statements.

I decided this would also be a great project to make the leap to Python and Django. So, without speaking to a single potential customer, I threw myself into coding. After a while, I realised Laravel is so much better and jumped back to that. Have learned loads as a result.

I've built a local prototype that works really well with impressive accuracy. However, I noticed the signs of fatigue and self-doubt that often mean a project is abandoned at 80% without seeing the light of day.

So I decided to find a domain name and put the totally half-baked and not-yet-functioning version online. A crappy, embarrassing, non-functional version. But at least I might get some feedback, which is more likely to inspire me to keep going and work out how I could market this.

https://www.statementsamurai.com

I'm giving myself a week or two to refresh, then will press ahead some more and put the minimal functionality online while thinking about how to find users.

Yeah, about that lean thing...

Luckily, eBay's API is very fast, but I also worked hard to keep the total response time of my code within a reasonable range.