<story><title>Image text recognition APIs showdown</title><url>https://dataturks.com/blog/compare-image-text-recognition-apis.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said this many times:  Google&amp;#x27;s AI services are superior in every way. They have better results and are easier to use.&lt;p&gt;Amazon is the master of the &amp;quot;good enough&amp;quot;.  Their service works well enough that you can check the box that it exists and then point it at all that data you already have in AWS.  And that&amp;#x27;s all that most everyone needs.&lt;p&gt;If you are using AI and your competitors aren&amp;#x27;t, it doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter all that much how good the AI is -- you&amp;#x27;re gonna do better and be more efficient.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s only after &lt;i&gt;everyone&lt;/i&gt; is using AI that it will start to matter how good your particular implementation is.  Right now we&amp;#x27;re at the stage that any implantation is better than none.</text></comment>
<story><title>Image text recognition APIs showdown</title><url>https://dataturks.com/blog/compare-image-text-recognition-apis.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yegle</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a picture which Google&amp;#x27;s Vision API returned Goo\u011fle&lt;p&gt;I was wondering why there&amp;#x27;s a unicode char in the middle:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    In [5]: c = &amp;#x27;\u011f&amp;#x27;
    
    In [6]: c
    Out[6]: &amp;#x27;ğ&amp;#x27;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
This does closely resemble the characters in the picture :-)</text></comment>