Kannada-only SIR forms spark row in Bengaluru, EC asked to provide English version

BENGALURU: The SIR of electoral rolls has triggered a fresh controversy in Bengaluru, with dozens of citizens taking to ...
GIGAZINE

The Japanese-language compatible OCR model 'Mistral OCR 4' has been released, and its AI converts PDFs and documents full of tables into 'usable data.'

Mistral AI has released its document recognition model, 'Mistral OCR 4.' This model not only extracts text from PDFs and Office documents, but also recognizes elements within the document such as ...
Newspoint on MSN

How to turn your smartphone into a powerful document scanner for clear and professional results

Modern smartphones can function as powerful document scanners, helping users digitise paperwork quickly and efficiently. By using proper lighting, positioning and scanning techniques, it is possible ...
The New Indian Express

Poet without borders: Kannada poet KS Nisar Ahmed's poems translated into English by Roopa Pai

'Jogada siri belakinalli, tungeya tene balukinalli, sahyadriya lohadalira uttungada nilukinalli,’ these lines which capture the natural beauty of this land – the Jog falls, the Tungabhadra river, the ...
Becker's Hospital Review

HHS splits OCR into 3 divisions

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is reorganizing its Office for Civil Rights, restoring separate divisions focused on civil rights and conscience and religious freedom. The ...
Science Daily

This breakthrough turns old tech into pure gold — No mercury, no cyanide, just light and salt

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...
The White House

Designating English as the Official Language of The United States

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...
The Conversation

How AI English and human English differ – and how to decide when to use artificial language

Suspicion and affection. Apprehension and excitement. Most people have mixed feelings about AI English, whether or not they always recognize it. When reading text generated by AI, people feel it ...
IEEE

Weighted Text-to-Image Retrieval Using CLIP, OCR, And Keyword Matching

Abstract: Traditional text-to-image retrieval systems have relied primarily on either caption-based or OCR-based searching which often fails to capture the semantic content of the images. In this ...
GitHub

AI Image OCR Plugin

A plugin for Obsidian that extracts text from images using OCR powered by AI image recognition. This is a simple plugin for extremely accurate and reliable text and handwriting recognition in images.
Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...