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Text height for OCR is the pixel height of a capital H, not the font size or the line
A rule like "keep the text at least 10 px tall for OCR" doesn't say which 10 px. A 10 px font size, …
Upscaling small text before OCR fixed Tesseract and hurt another engine
If your tool accepts user screenshots, sooner or later a tiny one arrives: a thumbnail cropped out o…
Same 8 px Chinese text, bigger white canvas: macOS Vision went from 88% to 0%
A test run on 2026-11-06 measured how small Chinese text can get before OCR gives up, and the strang…
Estimating text height before OCR: connected components held up where projection didn't
A pre-OCR gate that decides whether to upscale a screenshot needs one number from the image itself: …
Can ChatGPT Read Your Website? How I Found a Block My robots.txt Didn't Show
I wanted to know if ChatGPT ever cites my blog. So I asked it a few questions my posts answer, like …
Each OCR engine had its own minimum text height, and none had a maximum up to 60 px
When a screenshot is too small for OCR, upscaling it first is the tempting move. After three years o…
Glass Shower Door Hinges: Wall-Mount vs Glass-to-Glass and What the Load Ratings Mean
Glass Shower Door Hinges: Wall-Mount vs Glass-to-Glass and What the Load Ratings Mean Most shower a…
The File Picker Contract of 22 App Pages: 9 Open One, 4 Say the Same Accept List
I work on OnePassApps, so this is our own site and our own build. Every string below was read out of…
How to Sort a JSON Object by Value in JavaScript
Sorting JSON objects by their values is weirdly difficult in JavaScript. Object keys are unordered,…
Introducing Quillo: a web language where routes, HTML and databases are the syntax
This is the first public post about Quillo, the new web programming lanuage written in Rust, with Ru…
I Tried Turning Photos Into Personalized Rap Videos with AI
Some gifts are easy to buy and easy to forget. A personalized one usually takes time, and most of us…
A4 Paper Broke My Responsive Layout — and Made the Product Better
Most frontend work trains us to think in flexible dimensions. The viewport changes. Components stre…