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508-dev / journal-ocr

journal-ocr

A journal OCR flow using local vision models.

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What it is

A journal OCR flow using local vision models.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2026-10-02 03:04:16 UTC to 2026-10-14 07:19:49 UTC.

012026-10-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 22026-10-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 82026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 14

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Oct 142026-10-14 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-15 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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komali2·Oct 2, 2026
I set up an OCR flow using local models on all my many tens of journals stretching back the last 30 years. I would say it's about 80% accurate, which means it's missing enough key words to make a lot of it uselessly unintelligible. I can easily compare the images against text I turn up in a grep which is nice if I'm looking for something. Allegedly Claude set up a system for retraining for my handwriting, but it would require me to manually revise several hundred pages by hand so I don't think I'll ever do it. https://github.com/508-dev/journal-ocr
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