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by sejje 496 days ago
- I use them to create a vendor order each week. They take my voice and transcribe it into a list to text my sales reps.

- I use them to OCR PDFs from my bank

- I use them as a search/replace tool on CSVs

- I use them to replace Google searches

- I use them to code

- I'm trying to use them to view (still frames from) cameras periodically

I'll think of more uses, I'm sure. My work is very low tech and simple.

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What do you do after you OCR the pdfs?
Turn it into CSV, sometimes transform it, confirm it's correct, paste it into my spreadsheet.
Are you aware that AI-based OCR very often hallucinates? https://www.runpulse.com/blog/why-llms-suck-at-ocr
Yes. Hasn't been a problem yet for my bank pdfs.

As I said, I verify it. Since it's a total over many transactions, it's hard to hallucinate and then get the same total the bank sheet has.

Ya know?