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		jbreckmckye 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) How is the text extraction done? Tesseract?

armishra 8 months ago [–]

I just use an LLM with a prompt (pls dont hate). Found tesseract to be very bad for text extraction.

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